NAME

pacmd - Compatability notes

Functionality

Here is a breakdown of the functionality of pacmd(1).

Description

PulseAudio provides a CLI interface called pacmd. This lists the pacmd commands indexed by functionality. Because PulseAudio provides an object oriented interface to Pulse Audio, you needn't specify the index argument in any of these: these methods are called on the respective objects which hold the index (or in the case of PulseAudio::Module 'name') information.

PulseAudio::Backend::Utilties functionality

All of the functional is performed by the PulseAudio::Backend::Utilities role.

Loading

load-module

Load a module (args: name, arguments)

load-sample

Load a sound file into the sample cache (args: name, filename)

load-sample-lazy

Lazily load a sound file into the sample cache (args: name, filename)

load-sample-dir-lazy

Lazily load all files in a directory into the sample cache (args: pathname)

Listing

Interally we only parse info which is thought to have everything.

list-samples

List all entries in the sample cache

list-modules

List loaded modules

list-cards

List cards

list-sinks

List loaded sinks

list-sources

List loaded sources

list-clients

List loaded clients

list-sink-inputs

List sink inputs

list-source-outputs

List source outputs

stat

Show memory block statistics

info

Show comprehensive status

Misc

exit

Terminate the daemon

suspend

Suspend all sinks and all sources (args: bool)

Sink

All of these are supported by PulseAudio::Sink.

set-sink-volume

Set the volume of a sink (args: index|name, volume)

set-sink-mute

Set the mute switch of a sink (args: index|name, bool)

set-default-sink

Set the default sink (args: index|name)

set-sink-port

Change the port of a sink (args: index|name, port-name)

suspend-sink

Suspend sink (args: index|name, bool)

update-sink-proplist

Update the properties of a sink (args: index|name, properties)

play-sample

Play a sample from the sample cache (args: name, sink|index)

play-file

Play a sound file (args: filename, sink|index)

Sink Input

All of these are supported by PulseAudio::SinkInput.

set-sink-input-volume

Set the volume of a sink input (args: index, volume)

set-sink-input-mute

Set the mute switch of a sink input (args: index, bool)

move-sink-input

Move sink input to another sink (args: index, sink)

update-sink-input-proplist

Update the properties of a sink input (args: index, properties)

kill-sink-input

Kill a sink input (args: index)

Source

All of these are supported by PulseAudio::Source.

set-source-volume

Set the volume of a source (args: index|name, volume)

set-source-mute

Set the mute switch of a source (args: index|name, bool)

set-default-source

Set the default source (args: index|name)

set-source-port

Change the port of a source (args: index|name, port-name)

suspend-source

Suspend source (args: index|name, bool)

update-source-proplist

Update the properties of a source (args: index|name, properties)

Source Output

All of these are supported by PulseAudio::SourceOutput.

set-source-output-volume

Set the volume of a source output (args: index, volume)

set-source-output-mute

Set the mute switch of a source output (args: index, bool)

move-source-output

Move source output to another source (args: index, source)

update-source-output-proplist

Update the properties of a source output (args: index, properties)

kill-source-output

Kill a source output (args: index)

Card

All of these are supported by PulseAudio::Card.

set-card-profile

Change the profile of a card (args: index|name, profile-name)

Clients

All of these are supported by PulseAudio::Client.

kill-client

Kill a client (args: index)

Modules

All of these are supported by PulseAudio::Module.

unload-module

Unload a module (args: index)

Samples

All of these are supported by PulseAudio::Samples.

remove-sample

Remove a sample from the sample cache (args: name)

Totally unsupported commands

None of these commands are supported

describe-module

Describe a module (arg: name)

set-log-level

Change the log level (args: numeric level)

set-log-meta

Show source code location in log messages (args: bool)

set-log-time

Show timestamps in log messages (args: bool)

set-log-backtrace

Show backtrace in log messages (args: frames)

dump

Dump daemon configuration

dump-volumes

Debug: Show the state of all volumes

shared

Debug: Show shared properties

help

Show this help

cpanm PulseAudio

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install PulseAudio