# &app; Manual

&app; is a set of audio encoding configurations for GStreamer based applications.

2008-2009
GNOME Documentation Project
GNOME Documentation Project
Marc-Andre
Lureau
GNOME Project

     marcandre.lureau@gmail.com

Audio Profiles Manual V&manrevision;
June 2009

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Release with GNOME Media 2.27.3

Marc-Andre Lureau

GNOME Documentation Project

Audio Profiles Manual V0.1
December 2008

Marc-Andre Lureau

GNOME Documentation Project

This manual describes version &appversion; of GNOME Audio Profiles.

## Feedback

To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &app; application or this manual, follow the directions in the Feedback section of the GNOME User Guide.

## Introduction

&app; let you select and modify a list of pre-defined encoding formats. By default, &app; provides the following audio format:

- AAC-MP4 - The new standard of lossy compression.

- Ogg Vorbis - Xiph.Org lossy compression.

- Speex - Xiph.Org lossy compression optimized for voice.

- FLAC - Xiph.Org lossless audio compression.

- MP3 - The popular lossy compression format.

- MP2 - MPEG-1 Audio Layer II, largely supported.

- WAV - Lossless.

Some format may be illegal in your jurisdiction.

## Usage

Use &app; to modify a list of pre-defined encoding formats.

### Profile selection dialog

The following window is displayed to modify, add or remove the pre-defined formats.

#### &app; Window

Shows &app; main window. Contains list of profiles and modification options.

Select one of the profiles and click "Edit" to modify it. The "Profile modification window" will be displayed.

"Delete" will remove the currently selected profile from the list of profiles.

To create a new profile, click "New". The "Profile 5~ modification window" will be displayed.

### Profile editing

&app; let you modify the parameters of an audio profile.

#### Profile modification window

Shows &app; profile window.

- Profile name - user friendly name of the profile.

- Profile description - long description of this profile.

- GStreamer pipeline - the GStreamer encoding pipeline.

- File extension - the filename extension associated to this profile.

- Active - whether this profile is listed in client application.

## About &app;

To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding this application or this manual, follow the directions in the Feedback section of the GNOME User Guide.

This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public license as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license is included with this documentation; another can be found in the file COPYING included with the source code of this program.