Pulse

If you have pulse, use pulse. Check with which pulseaudio. No output means you need to use alsa (below).

Volume Control

1pactl set sink @DEFAULT_SINK@ +5%

Find working outputs:

1aplay -l

#Sound Settings

Surround.5 seems best.

Find what Sound settings exist

amixer scontrols

Change a Sound setting

1amixer set …

Basics

Add your user to the audio group, and install festival-english.

1echo "(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)" >> /usr/share/festival/voices.scm

1echo "(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE")" /usr/share/festival/voices.scm

Set …

Basics

Translate a media file to a new type.

ffmpeg -i [input file] output_file.mkv

The input file might be a device, such as a camera.

#Record screen

Take the format as 'grab the x11 screen'.

1ffmpeg -f x11grab -s [screensize] -i :0.0 out.mkv

Get screensize with

1xrandr -q

or maybe just...

1ffmpeg -f x11grab -s " …

Setup

Configuration

This is a minimum configuration file for /etc/mpd.conf

music_directory "/var/lib/mpd/music"

playlist_directory "/var/lib/mpd/playlists"

db_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpd.db"

pid_file "/run/mpd/mpd.pid"

state_file "/var/lib/mpd/mpdstate"

user …

Music Player Daemon

Install, then run as user with all configuration files in ~/.config/mpd/.

Go down config list, copied from /usr/share/docs/mpd/ or something.

mpd-configure

Problem solving

I couldn't change volume, so in mpd.conf I uncommented the pulse audio lines and restarted mpd. This allowed pulse audio …