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Specify avoptions and how to use pactl to list devices.

Signed-off-by: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
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For more information about OSS see:
@url{http://manuals.opensound.com/usersguide/dsp.html}

@section pulse

pulseaudio input device.

To enable this input device during configuration you need libpulse-simple
installed in your system.

The filename to provide to the input device is a source device or the
string "default"

To list the pulse source devices and their properties you can invoke
the command @file{pactl list sources}.

@example
avconv -f pulse -i default /tmp/pulse.wav
@end example

@subsection @var{server} AVOption

The syntax is:
@example
-server @var{server name}
@end example

Connects to a specific server.

@subsection @var{name} AVOption

The syntax is:
@example
-name @var{application name}
@end example

Specify the application name pulse will use when showing active clients,
by default it is "libav"

@subsection @var{stream_name} AVOption

The syntax is:
@example
-stream_name @var{stream name}
@end example

Specify the stream name pulse will use when showing active streams,
by default it is "record"

@subsection @var{sample_rate} AVOption

The syntax is:
@example
-sample_rate @var{samplerate}
@end example

Specify the samplerate in Hz, by default 48kHz is used.

@subsection @var{channels} AVOption

The syntax is:
@example
-channels @var{N}
@end example

Specify the channels in use, by default 2 (stereo) is set.

@subsection @var{frame_size} AVOption

The syntax is:
@example
-frame_size @var{bytes}
@end example

Specify the number of byte per frame, by default it is set to 1024.

@subsection @var{fragment_size} AVOption

The syntax is:
@example
-fragment_size @var{bytes}
@end example

Specify the minimal buffering fragment in pulseaudio, it will affect the
audio latency. By default it is unset.

@section sndio

sndio input device.


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