sfront - MPEG 4 Structured Audio decoder.
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Description
This manual page documents briefly the sfront command. This manual page was written for the Debian
distribution because the original program does not have a general manual page. Instead, it has
documentation in the HTML format; see below.
sfront is a program that compiles MPEG 4 Structured Audio (MP4-SA) bitstreams into efficient C programs
that generate audio when executed. It supports real-time, low-latency audio input/output and MIDI input
from soundcards.
You must compile the C file generated after sfront execution with a C compiler, and execute the resulting
program to get the audio output.
Name
sfront - MPEG 4 Structured Audio decoder.
Options
A summary of the most important options is included below. For a complete description, see the HTML
manual.
-help Show summary of all of the options.
-oc_file
Write the C output to the file c_file-bitmp4_file
Use the MPEG4 binary file mp4_file as input file.
-bitcmp4_file
Use the MPEG4 binary file mp4_file as input file. Skip its streaming data.
-orcorchestra_file
Use the textual SAOL file orchestra_file as orchestra input file.
-scoscore_file
Use the textual SASL file score_file as score input file.
-sstrscore_file
Use the stream-encoded SASL file score_file as score input file.
-midimidi_file
Use the MIDI file midi_file as score input file.
-mstrmidi_file
Use the streamed MIDI file midi_file as score input file.
See Also
On Debian systems you can find the sfront related documentation in /usr/share/doc/sfront/html/index.html.
Included there are:
TheSfrontReferenceManual by John Lazzaro and John Wawrzynek.
TheMPEG-4StructuredAudioBook by John Lazzaro and John Wawrzynek.
Synopsis
sfront [options]
