The libao package contains a cross-platform audio library. This is useful to output audio on a wide variety of platforms. It currently supports WAV files, OSS (Open Sound System), ESD (Enlighten Sound Daemon), ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture), NAS (Network Audio system), aRTS (analog Real-Time Synthesizer and PulseAudio (next generation GNOME sound architecture).
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ao/libao-1.1.0.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/libao-1.1.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 2b2508c29bc97e4dc218fa162cf883c8
Download size: 388 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
X Window System, EsounD-0.2.41, ALSA-1.0.27, and PulseAudio-4.0 (requires libatomic_ops-7.2d on x86)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libao
Install libao by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install && install -v -m644 README /usr/share/doc/libao-1.1.0
Currently, the only configuration option available is setting the default output device. Issue man libao.conf for details.
Last updated on 2013-09-01 15:01:22 -0700