libao Documentation

Libao is a cross-platform library that allows programs to output PCM audio data to the native audio devices on a wide variety of platforms. It currently supports:

• OSS (Open Sound System)
• ESD (ESounD)
• ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
• Sun audio system (used in Solaris, OpenBSD, and NetBSD)
• aRts (Analog Realtime Synthesizer)
• PulseAudio
• Roar Audio
• OpenBSD SNDIO
• Windows MMSound
• IRIX
• MacOS X (AU HAL)
• NAS
• AIX

libao api overview
drivers
example code
configuration files
libao api reference
plugin writer's overview
plugin api reference