DBCAT(1)

📦 version 0.9.8, in ubuntu jammy

okay so bestie, welcome to the DBCAT(1) page 💖 it lives in the General Commands Manual section and it's literally all about one lil tool called dbin. no cap, it's short, it's sweet, and we're gonna go through every single line of it. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dbin — connect sound card input to DB Fourier Synthesis daemon 🎤

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dbin [options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The dbin tool lets you connect a sound card's input channel to dbfsd. 🦋 Both dbin and dbfsd are part of the DBMix project, which is a digital audio mixing system, and it's giving very much "we do audio here". dbin is what you need when you wanna mix in data from a microphone, or from an external audio device that you've plugged into the line-in jack. 🔌

⚠️ okay listen, this part is important, don't skip it: the audio device used by dbin must support full-duplex operation. and also, that device must not be used for the master or cue output of dbfsd. if you do that anyway? dbin will output but an empty audio stream. literally nothing. silence. 💀

✨ 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.) — and no, that stray extra source.) is not me being chaotic, that's literally what the page says, the typo is canon 🙈
  • -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. — same situation, canon duplicate, we respect the lore 💅

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

dbcat(1), dbfsd(1), dbmixer(1), dbmix(7). 🌈 go read those next, iykyk.

✨ 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. 👑 absolute icons, fr fr.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this version of DBCAT(1) is dated August 6, 2002, so yeah, vintage but still slaying. mwah, go mix some audio. 💖🌸✨

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