NAME

       sfront -  MPEG 4 Structured Audio decoder.

SYNOPSIS

       sfront [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the  sfront command.  This manual page was written for the Debian
       distribution because the original program  does  not  have  a  general  manual  page.   Instead,  it  has
       documentation in the HTML format; see below.

       sfront  is  a program that compiles MPEG 4 Structured Audio (MP4-SA) bitstreams into efficient C programs
       that generate audio when executed. It supports real-time, low-latency audio input/output and  MIDI  input
       from soundcards.

       You must compile the C file generated after sfront execution with a C compiler, and execute the resulting
       program to get the audio output.

OPTIONS

       A summary of the most important options is included below. For  a  complete  description,  see  the  HTML
       manual.

       -help  Show summary of all of the options.

       -o c_file
              Write the C output to the file c_file

       -bit mp4_file
              Use the MPEG4 binary file mp4_file as input file.

       -bitc mp4_file
              Use the MPEG4 binary file mp4_file as input file. Skip its streaming data.

       -orc orchestra_file
              Use the textual SAOL file orchestra_file as orchestra input file.

       -sco score_file
              Use the textual SASL file score_file as score input file.

       -sstr score_file
              Use the stream-encoded SASL file score_file as score input file.

       -midi midi_file
              Use the MIDI file midi_file as score input file.

       -mstr midi_file
              Use the streamed MIDI file midi_file as score input file.

SEE ALSO

       On Debian systems you can find the sfront related documentation in /usr/share/doc/sfront/html/index.html.
       Included there are:

       The Sfront Reference Manual by John Lazzaro and John Wawrzynek.

       The MPEG-4 Structured Audio Book by John Lazzaro and John Wawrzynek.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Enrique Robledo Arnuncio <era@debian.org>, for the Debian system (but may
       be used by others).

                                                  May 14, 2002                                         SFRONT(1)