1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136091403321

Autore

Glover Douglas

Titolo

A Guide to Animal Behaviour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Goose Lane Editions

ISBN

0-86492-787-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Disciplina

813.6

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for FictionA Guide to Animal Behaviour is a stunning collection of stories by an author who is fast becoming one of the great, innovative story writers of his generation. Following on the heels of his widely acclaimed comic novel, The South Will Rise at Noon, Douglas Glover's new collection smashes all the fictional moulds.Urbane, stylish, and off-beat, the stories in this collection touch the lives of an astonishing array of characters whose common experience is of a world that is wayward yet full of marvels: a born-again Christian from Kentucky who loses his memory and ends up finding true love in glitzy Bel Air; two women who fall in love only to be parted when one dies of cancer; a man who goes to live in a cardboard box when his wife leaves him for the manager of a Toys R Us store; an eighteenth-century Canadian pioneer who believes he is being persecuted by witches.This is sophisticated fiction at its best. A maximalist writer of ideas, he packs his sentences with energy, exuberant imagery and amazing turns of thoughts.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910162768703321

Autore

Newmarch Jan

Titolo

Linux Sound Programming / / by Jan Newmarch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : Apress : , : Imprint : Apress, , 2017

ISBN

9781484224960

1484224965

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIII, 608 p. 63 illus., 54 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

005.11

Soggetti

Computer programming

Open source software

Multimedia systems

Programming Techniques

Open Source

Multimedia Information Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Basic concepts of sound -- 2. User level tools -- 3. Sound codecs and file formats -- 4. Overview of Linux sound architecture -- 5. ALSA -- 6. PulseAudio -- 7. Jack -- 8. Session Management -- 9. Java Sound -- 10. GStreamer -- 11. libao -- 12. FFmpeg/LibAV -- 13. OpenMAX IL -- 14. LADSPA -- 15. Displaying video with overlays using Gtk and FFMpeg -- 16. MIDI -- 17. User level tools for MIDI -- 18. MIDI Java Sound -- 19. MIDI ALSA -- 20. FluidSynth -- 21. Timidity -- 22. Overview of Karaoke Systems -- 23. Karaoke user level tools -- 24. MP3+G -- 25. Karaoke Applications using Java Sound -- 26. Subtitles and Closed Captions -- 27. Karaoke FluidSynth -- 28. TiMidity and Karaoke -- 29. Jack and Karaoke -- 30. Streaming Audio -- 31. Raspberry Pi -- 32. Conclusion -- Appendix: Decoding the DKD files on the Sonken Karaoke DVD.

Sommario/riassunto

Program audio and sound for Linux using this practical, how-to guide. You will learn how to use DSPs, sampled audio, MIDI, karaoke, streaming audio, and more. Linux Sound Programming takes you through the layers of complexity involved in programming the Linux sound system. You’ll see the large variety of tools and approaches that



apply to almost every aspect of sound. This ranges from audio codecs, to audio players, to audio support both within and outside of the Linux kernel. You will: Work with sampled audio Handle Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Gain knowledge of MIDI Build a Karaoke-like application Handle streaming audio .