1dmapd(8)                    System Manager's Manual                   dmapd(8)
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NAME

6       dmapd - Serve DAAP (iTunes) and DPAP (iPhoto) shares from Linux
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SYNOPSIS

9       dmapd [options]
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OVERVIEW

12       The  dmapd project provides a GObject-based, Open Source implementation
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15        o Support for both DAAP and DPAP
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17        o Support for realtime transcoding of media formats not natively
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20        o Support for many metadata formats, such as those associated with Ogg
21        Vorbis and MP3 (e.g., ID3)
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23        o Detection of video streams so that clients may play them as video
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25        o Use of GStreamer to support a wide range of audio and video CODECs
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27        o Caching of photograph thumbnails to  avoid  regenerating  them  each
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32       Dmapd runs on Linux and other POSIX operating systems. It has been used
33       on OpenWrt Linux-based systems with as little  as  32MB  of  memory  to
34       serve  music,  video  and  photograph libraries containing thousands of
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DETAILS

39       Dmapd can provide content to any client that  supports  DAAP  or  DPAP.
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52       Dmapd  can read metadata from any music file supported by GStreamer. In
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54       ins installed. The following plugins are always required if you wish to
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65       The following GStreamer plugins  are  required  for  the  corresponding
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AUTHORS

85       W. Michael Petullo <mike@flyn.org>
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