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)