NAME

       distmp3host - daemon for distributed mp3-encoding across multiple hosts on a network

SYNOPSIS

       distmp3host

DESCRIPTION

       distmp3host  is daemon part of distmp3, a utility for distributed mp3-encoding across multiple hosts on a
       network.

       The daemon binds port 4600 on localhost and waits for connections.  The client connects to a remote  host
       on port 4600 and a handshake occurs.

       If  the  handshake  goes  well the daemon creates two named-pipes (fifos) for the mp3-encoding program to
       use. It also forks one child as reading or writing from/to the fifos is a blocking system call.

       The daemon passes the recieved wav data to the output-fifo (which the mp3-encoding program reads its data
       from).

       The daemon reads the encoded mp3-data from the input-fifo (the one the mp3-encoder write it's encoded mp3
       to) and sends it back to the client who writes it down in a file.

       Default values are used if none specified, and those defaults are read from /etc/distmp3/distmp3.conf

OPTIONS

       -p port
              The port to listen on.

       -s datasize
              The datachunksize to use when sending data to the distmp3host server.

       -d debug
              If 1 then debugmessages will be printed on stdout, else suppressed.

       -df debugfile
              If defined debugmessages will be printed to file debugfile

       -w wavfifo
              The fifo used for writing the wavfile to so the encoder can read it.

       -m mp3fifo
              The fifo used by the encoder to write the mp3stream to.

       -e program $wavfifo $mp3fifo
              The program used for encoding the wavdata into mp3.

              $wavfifo will be replaced with what was specified with -w

              $mp3fifo will be replaced with what was specified with -m

       SEE ALSO
              distmp3(1)

AUTHOR

       Martin Josefsson <gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>. Idea for distmp3 by  Peter  Lindqvist  <nevyn@wlug.westbo.se>.
       Manpage written by Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>.

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