From aca8bced9ea496918b8f044842b2ab6b1373e6cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wim Taymans Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:41:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man: improve pw-cat man page formats See #3389 --- man/pw-cat.1.rst.in | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/pw-cat.1.rst.in b/man/pw-cat.1.rst.in index f8df95ded..87d4ab6c5 100644 --- a/man/pw-cat.1.rst.in +++ b/man/pw-cat.1.rst.in @@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ DESCRIPTION **pw-cat** is a simple tool for playing back or capturing raw or encoded media files on a PipeWire server. It understands all audio file formats supported by -``libsndfile`` for PCM capture and playback. +``libsndfile`` for PCM capture and playback. When capturing PCM, the filename +extension is used to guess the file format with the WAV file format as +the default. It understands standard MIDI files for playback and recording. This tool will not render MIDI files, it will simply make the MIDI events available @@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ DSD playback is supported with the DSF file format. This tool will only work with native DSD capable hardware and will produce an error when no such hardware was found. -When the *FILE* is - input and output will be from STDIN and +When the *FILE* is - input and output will be raw data from STDIN and STDOUT respectively. OPTIONS