Beyond Linux From Scratch - Version 6.0

Chapter 37. Multimedia Libraries and Drivers

Audio File-0.2.6

Introduction to Audio File

The Audio File package contains the audio file libraries and two sound file support programs. These are useful to support basic sound file formats.

Package information

Installation of Audio File

Install Audio File by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Contents

The Audio File package contains libaudiofile libraries, audiofile-config, sfinfo and sfconvert.

Description

libaudiofile library

The libaudiofile library is used by programs to support AIFF, AIFF-compressed, Sun/NeXT, WAV and BIC audio formats.

audiofile-config

The audiofile-config script is used during the compile process by programs linking to this library.

sfinfo

The sfinfo program displays the sound file format, audio encoding, sampling rate and duration for audio formats supported by this library.

sfconvert

The sfconvert program converts sound file formats where the original format and destination format are supported by this library.

Last updated on 2005-02-13 22:28:45 -0700