NAME

       synaesthesia - visual sound display

SYNOPSIS

       synaesthesia [--use-sdl] [--use-x] [--use-svga] [--fullscreen] [--width w] [--height h] input

DESCRIPTION

       Synaestheia  is  a program for representing audio graphically in real time using an attractive variety of
       visual effects.  It reads sound data from input and displays the visual representation through svgalib, X
       or SDL.

       While synaesthesia is running, moving the mouse over the window will expose a  set  of  audio  and  other
       runtime controls.

       --use-sdl
              Force display via SDL.

       --use-svga
              Force display via svgalib (i386 architecture only).

       --use-x
              Force display via X.

       --fullscreen
              Attempt a full-screen display (requires a fast machine).

       --width w
              Specify a width for the window.

       --height h
              Specify a height for the window.

       input as cd | line | esd | pipe frequency
              Audio  source; this should be one of cd, line, esd, or pipe.  When using a pipe source, the sample
              frequency (e.g.  44100) must be specified; synaesthesia will expect a 16-bit stereo PCM stream  on
              standard input.  The sound will be played to the audio device.

EXAMPLES

       synaesthesia esd

       synaesthesia cd

       synaesthesia line

       ogg123 -d raw -f - song.ogg | synaesthesia pipe 44100

AUTHOR

       Synaesthesia was written by Paul Harrison <pfh@csse.monash.edu.au>.

       This  manual  page  was written by Devin Carraway <devin@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but
       may be used by others).

                                                   10 May 2003                                   synaesthesia(1)