README

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Stream-Decoder
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The stream-decoder is a daemon that fetches audio streams by HTTP and
decodes them so that another process can access the decoded stream over
a named pipe.

stream-decoder uses GStreamer for decoding. Some elements of the
decoding process such as resampling and format conversion have been
moved out of the GStreamer pipeline and are done by the stream-decoder
itself for performance reasons.


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Usage 
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The stream-decoder is designed to run as separate process.  A client
communicates with it using D-Bus using the com.raumfeld.StreamDecoder
service.


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Copyright 2009 - 2014 Raumfeld GmbH
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.