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authorThomas Vander Stichele <thomas@apestaart.org>2002-07-05 10:31:43 +0000
committerThomas Vander Stichele <thomas@apestaart.org>2002-07-05 10:31:43 +0000
commit038b2dbd7b13afc1cdbeba0f6fafb17678d1d405 (patch)
tree2722fbb19f6742bdf5b580a84d3980e9966ea4f8
parent4fa2d4f3911de09601f7436d65700756510c857c (diff)
doc fixes
Original commit message from CVS: doc fixes
-rw-r--r--gst/synaesthesia/Makefile.am2
-rw-r--r--gst/synaesthesia/README143
-rw-r--r--gst/synaesthesia/README-syna137
3 files changed, 143 insertions, 139 deletions
diff --git a/gst/synaesthesia/Makefile.am b/gst/synaesthesia/Makefile.am
index eea8f536..85138196 100644
--- a/gst/synaesthesia/Makefile.am
+++ b/gst/synaesthesia/Makefile.am
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ libgstsynaesthesia_la_CFLAGS = -O2 -ffast-math $(GST_CFLAGS)
libgstsynaesthesia_la_LIBADD =
libgstsynaesthesia_la_LDFLAGS = $(GST_PLUGIN_LDFLAGS)
-EXTRA_DIST = README-syna
+EXTRA_DIST = README
diff --git a/gst/synaesthesia/README b/gst/synaesthesia/README
index 9cbb644d..3932682c 100644
--- a/gst/synaesthesia/README
+++ b/gst/synaesthesia/README
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-This is a visualization based on on synaesthesia. (see README-syna).
+This is a visualization based on on synaesthesia. (see the synaesthesia
+README below)
This implementation is taken from alsaplayer: http://www.alsaplayer.org/ It
is based on synaesthesia version 1.3 (or maybe 1.4, I'm not entirely
@@ -8,3 +9,143 @@ something interesting is displayed for both very quiet and very loud music.
Note: only one instance of this plugin may be created at a time: it has a
lot of static data. This should be fixed (and it shouldn't be hard to do
so, either).
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+SYNAESTHESIA v2.0
+
+Introduction
+============
+
+This is a program for representing sounds visually from a CD or line
+input or piped from another program. It goes beyond the usual oscilliscope
+style program by combining an FFT and stereo positioning information to
+give a two dimensional display. Some of the shapes I have observed are:
+ * Drums: clouds of color, fairly high
+ * Clean guitar: several horizontal lines, low down
+ * Rough guitar: a cloud, low down
+ * Trumpet: Lots of horizontal lines everywhere
+ * Flute: A single horizontal line, low down
+ * Voice: A vertical line with some internal structure
+ * Synthesizer: All kinds of weird shapes!
+
+Synaesthesia can run in a window in X or full screen using SVGAlib.
+
+The display represents frequency as vertical position on screen,
+left-right position as left-right position on screen. It can also
+understand surround sound encoded music, and shows ambient noise
+in orange.
+
+X-Windows support was added in version 1.3, as well as a major redesign
+of the interface. You can use Synaesthesia as a fully functional
+CD player, suitable for use while working.
+
+There is command line support for play lists and piping from another
+program (such as an mp3 player).
+
+Usage
+=====
+
+Synaesthesia should work on Linux and BSD systems. (Note: I don't
+have access to a BSD system myself, I have to rely on patches -- if it
+doesn't work, please tell me!) LinuxPPC users may have to use the pipe
+mode rather than taking sound input from the CD player, as I believe
+sound recording is not yet implemented.
+
+Compile Synaesthesia by typing
+
+ make
+
+then install it by typing
+
+ make install
+
+This will create three versions of Synaesthesia:
+
+ synaesthesia - full screen SVGAlib version (Linux only)
+ xsynaesthesia - Version that runs as a window in X
+ sdlsynaesthesia - Version that uses the SDL graphics library
+
+If you want to use the SDL version, you need to get SDL from
+http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL.
+
+You will need to run Synaesthesia as root to run it full screen
+with SVGAlib. Other varieties can be run by any user providing you
+provide permissions on /dev/dsp, /dev/cdrom, and /dev/mixer.
+
+Synaesthesia creates a configuration file, named ~/.synaesthesia,
+to store settings such as brightness, color, and window size, as
+well as which devices to use to control sound input.
+
+BSD users will have to edit this file to set the CD-ROM device name
+before using Synaesthesia in order to control the CD.
+
+Run Synaesthesia with no parameters for further information on how to
+use it.
+
+Notes for code rippers
+======================
+
+This program contains code that you may wish to use in your own projects.
+If you want to, please do. (For example, you might want to add some
+snazzy visual effects to your favourite MP3 or CD player)
+
+The actual code to do the mapping from sound to visual display is
+all in core.cpp, it should be fairly easy to disentangle from other
+parts of the program. It does make reference to some globals defined
+in syna.h, namely the #defines m (log2 of the sample size for each
+frame) and brightness, data (which stores the sound input), outputBmp,
+lastOutputBmp and lastLastOutputBmp (which hold the output), outWidth
+and outHeight (size of the bitmaps), and fadeMode, brightnessTwiddler,
+starSize and pointsAreDiamonds (various parameters affecting the display).
+
+The normal way to use it would be:
+
+ Call coreInit() to set up some look-up tables
+ Call setStarSize(starSize) to set up some more look-up tables
+ Loop
+ Put data into the data array
+ Call fade() to apply the fade/wave/heat effect to the output
+ Call coreGo() to add the next fragment of sound input to the output
+ Display contents of outputBmp to screen
+
+There is a simple anti-aliased polygon drawing engine in the file
+polygon.h. sound.cpp contains code for driving the CD. xlib.c and
+xlibwrap.cpp contain code for setting up a window under X (originally
+ripped from the Xaos fractal viewer program :-) ).
+
+Authors
+=======
+
+This program is free. If you like it, or have any suggestions, please
+send me (Paul Harrison) an email (pfh@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au).
+
+Thanks to Asger Alstrup Nielsen for many great suggestions, and for
+writing optimized 32 bit loops for fading and drawing to screen.
+
+Thanks to Roger Knobbe for porting Synaesthesia to FreeBSD.
+
+Thanks to Ben Gertzfield and Martin Mitchell for some small fixes to the
+CD controlling code.
+
+Thanks to Simon Budig for an improvement to the X code.
+
+Changes
+=======
+
+1.1 - Added surround sound decoding.
+1.2 - Fixed a bug in the ioctl calls to /dev/dsp.
+1.3 - Asger Alstrup Nielsen's optimizations added.
+ Added X-Windows support.
+ More options, redesigned interface.
+1.4 - Bug fixes, including a great reduction in
+ "Sound: Recording overrun" warnings.
+ New command line options: play lists and piping.
+ Support for SDL.
+2.0 - Bug fixes: Fixed problem in xlib.c that caused occasional segfaults,
+ several endianness problems fixed.
+ New effects: Wave, heat, diamond shaped points.
+ Piping sound now longer requires the twiddle factor.
+ Yet another interface redesign.
+ Partial support for LinuxPPC (pipe mode only)
+
diff --git a/gst/synaesthesia/README-syna b/gst/synaesthesia/README-syna
deleted file mode 100644
index 85ed9b96..00000000
--- a/gst/synaesthesia/README-syna
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,137 +0,0 @@
-SYNAESTHESIA v2.0
-
-Introduction
-============
-
-This is a program for representing sounds visually from a CD or line
-input or piped from another program. It goes beyond the usual oscilliscope
-style program by combining an FFT and stereo positioning information to
-give a two dimensional display. Some of the shapes I have observed are:
- * Drums: clouds of color, fairly high
- * Clean guitar: several horizontal lines, low down
- * Rough guitar: a cloud, low down
- * Trumpet: Lots of horizontal lines everywhere
- * Flute: A single horizontal line, low down
- * Voice: A vertical line with some internal structure
- * Synthesizer: All kinds of weird shapes!
-
-Synaesthesia can run in a window in X or full screen using SVGAlib.
-
-The display represents frequency as vertical position on screen,
-left-right position as left-right position on screen. It can also
-understand surround sound encoded music, and shows ambient noise
-in orange.
-
-X-Windows support was added in version 1.3, as well as a major redesign
-of the interface. You can use Synaesthesia as a fully functional
-CD player, suitable for use while working.
-
-There is command line support for play lists and piping from another
-program (such as an mp3 player).
-
-Usage
-=====
-
-Synaesthesia should work on Linux and BSD systems. (Note: I don't
-have access to a BSD system myself, I have to rely on patches -- if it
-doesn't work, please tell me!) LinuxPPC users may have to use the pipe
-mode rather than taking sound input from the CD player, as I believe
-sound recording is not yet implemented.
-
-Compile Synaesthesia by typing
-
- make
-
-then install it by typing
-
- make install
-
-This will create three versions of Synaesthesia:
-
- synaesthesia - full screen SVGAlib version (Linux only)
- xsynaesthesia - Version that runs as a window in X
- sdlsynaesthesia - Version that uses the SDL graphics library
-
-If you want to use the SDL version, you need to get SDL from
-http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL.
-
-You will need to run Synaesthesia as root to run it full screen
-with SVGAlib. Other varieties can be run by any user providing you
-provide permissions on /dev/dsp, /dev/cdrom, and /dev/mixer.
-
-Synaesthesia creates a configuration file, named ~/.synaesthesia,
-to store settings such as brightness, color, and window size, as
-well as which devices to use to control sound input.
-
-BSD users will have to edit this file to set the CD-ROM device name
-before using Synaesthesia in order to control the CD.
-
-Run Synaesthesia with no parameters for further information on how to
-use it.
-
-Notes for code rippers
-======================
-
-This program contains code that you may wish to use in your own projects.
-If you want to, please do. (For example, you might want to add some
-snazzy visual effects to your favourite MP3 or CD player)
-
-The actual code to do the mapping from sound to visual display is
-all in core.cpp, it should be fairly easy to disentangle from other
-parts of the program. It does make reference to some globals defined
-in syna.h, namely the #defines m (log2 of the sample size for each
-frame) and brightness, data (which stores the sound input), outputBmp,
-lastOutputBmp and lastLastOutputBmp (which hold the output), outWidth
-and outHeight (size of the bitmaps), and fadeMode, brightnessTwiddler,
-starSize and pointsAreDiamonds (various parameters affecting the display).
-
-The normal way to use it would be:
-
- Call coreInit() to set up some look-up tables
- Call setStarSize(starSize) to set up some more look-up tables
- Loop
- Put data into the data array
- Call fade() to apply the fade/wave/heat effect to the output
- Call coreGo() to add the next fragment of sound input to the output
- Display contents of outputBmp to screen
-
-There is a simple anti-aliased polygon drawing engine in the file
-polygon.h. sound.cpp contains code for driving the CD. xlib.c and
-xlibwrap.cpp contain code for setting up a window under X (originally
-ripped from the Xaos fractal viewer program :-) ).
-
-Authors
-=======
-
-This program is free. If you like it, or have any suggestions, please
-send me (Paul Harrison) an email (pfh@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au).
-
-Thanks to Asger Alstrup Nielsen for many great suggestions, and for
-writing optimized 32 bit loops for fading and drawing to screen.
-
-Thanks to Roger Knobbe for porting Synaesthesia to FreeBSD.
-
-Thanks to Ben Gertzfield and Martin Mitchell for some small fixes to the
-CD controlling code.
-
-Thanks to Simon Budig for an improvement to the X code.
-
-Changes
-=======
-
-1.1 - Added surround sound decoding.
-1.2 - Fixed a bug in the ioctl calls to /dev/dsp.
-1.3 - Asger Alstrup Nielsen's optimizations added.
- Added X-Windows support.
- More options, redesigned interface.
-1.4 - Bug fixes, including a great reduction in
- "Sound: Recording overrun" warnings.
- New command line options: play lists and piping.
- Support for SDL.
-2.0 - Bug fixes: Fixed problem in xlib.c that caused occasional segfaults,
- several endianness problems fixed.
- New effects: Wave, heat, diamond shaped points.
- Piping sound now longer requires the twiddle factor.
- Yet another interface redesign.
- Partial support for LinuxPPC (pipe mode only)
-