Linux Sound Programming

Jan Newmarch is Head of ICT (Higher Education) at Box Hill Institute, Adjunct Professor at Canberra University and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Information Technology, Computing and Mathematics at Charles Sturt University. He is interested in more aspects of computing than he has time to pursue, but the major thrust over the last few years has developed from user interfaces under Unix into Java, the Web and now into general distributed systems. Jan has developed a number of publicly available software systems in these areas. Right now, he is looking at sound for Linux systems and programming the Raspberry Pi's GPU.

1. Basic concepts of sound.- 2. User level tools.- 3. Sound codecs and file formats.- 4. Overview of Linux sound architecture.- 5. ALSA.- 6. PulseAudio.- 7. Jack.- 8. Session Management.- 9. Java Sound.- 10. GStreamer.- 11. libao.- 12. FFmpeg/LibAV.- 13. OpenMAX IL.- 14. LADSPA.- 15. Displaying video with overlays using Gtk and FFMpeg.- 16. MIDI.- 17. User level tools for MIDI.- 18. MIDI Java Sound.- 19. MIDI ALSA.- 20. FluidSynth.- 21. Timidity.- 22. Overview of Karaoke Systems.- 23. Karaoke user level tools.- 24. MP3+G.- 25. Karaoke Applications using Java Sound.- 26. Subtitles and Closed Captions.- 27. Karaoke FluidSynth.- 28. TiMidity and Karaoke.- 29. Jack and Karaoke.- 30. Streaming Audio.- 31. Raspberry Pi.- 32. Conclusion.- Appendix: Decoding the DKD files on the Sonken Karaoke DVD.