NAME

	audio – audio device

SYNOPSIS

	bind –a #A /dev /dev/audio /dev/audioctl /dev/audiostat /dev/volume

DESCRIPTION

The audio device serves a one–level directory, giving access to the stereo audio ports. Audio is the data file, which can be written for audio playback. Audio data is a sequence of stereo samples, left sample first. Each sample is a 16 bit little–endian two's complement integer; the default sampling rate is 44.1 kHz. The length of the audio file as returned by stat(2) represents the number of bytes buffered for output. Audioctl is driver specific control file and left undocumented here. Audiostat is a read only status file. The first line has a length of 32 bytes including the newline and starts with the string bufsize followed by the preferred write unit (in bytes) and the string buffered followed by the number of bytes currently queued for output. The numbers are decimal and right–padded with spaces to fit. After this fixed header, the content of the file is driver–specific. Volume is the control file associated with the audio port. Each source has an associated stereo volume control, ranging from 0 (quiet) to 100 (loud). In addition, there are controls for the sampling rate, latency control and for any tone controls. Reads return lines of the form source left right or source value Valid sources depend on the particular audio device, though all devices have an audio stereo source, which controls the output volume from the D/A converter. Values for speed set the sampling frequency of the audio device and delay limits the audio data output buffering to a number of samples. Writes accept the same format except that for stereo sources left and right can be abbreviated to a single value if both should be set the same.

SOURCE

	/sys/src/9/port/devaudio.c

SEE ALSO

	nusb(4)