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NAME

       dbin - Connect sound card input to DB Fourier Synthesis daemon

SYNOPSIS

       dbin [options]

DESCRIPTION

       The  dbin tool allows to connect a sound card's input channel to dbfsd.	Both dbin and dbfsd are part of the DBMix project, a digital audio
       mixing system.  dbin is needed to mix in data from a microphone, or from an external audio device plugged into the line-in jack.

       The audio device used by dbin must support full-duplex operation.  Also, this device must not be used for  the  master  or  cue	output	of
       dbfsd.  Otherwise, dbin will output but an empty audio stream.

OPTIONS

       -8     Input data comprises of PCM-coded 8bit unsigned samples.	(Default: 16bit signed samples.)

       -a dev Connect to audio device dev.  (Default: /dev/dsp.)

       -c n   Connect to channel n of dbfsd.  (Default: first channel available.)

       -d     Print out debug messages to console.  (Default: debugging disabled.)

       -h     Print summary of available options.

       -l     Audio input is a line-in source.	(Default: input is a microphone source.)  source.)

       -m     Input data is a mono stream.  (Default: interleaved stereo stream.)

       -r rate
	      Input data is sampled at rate Hertz.  (Default: 44100Hz.)

       -s     Send output data to stdout.  (Default: Send output to dbfsd.)  dbfsd.

SEE ALSO

       dbcat(1), dbfsd(1), dbmixer(1), dbmix(7).

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was	written  by Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).  It is
       heavily based on DBMix's README file written by Robert Michael S Dean.

								  August 6, 2002							  DBCAT(1)