padsp(1) General Commands Manual padsp(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

padsp - PulseAudio OSS Wrapper

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**padsp \[options] PROGRAM \[ARGUMENTS ...]**

padsp -h

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

*padsp* starts the specified program and redirects its access to OSS compatible audio devices (*/dev/dsp* and auxiliary devices) to a PulseAudio sound server.

*padsp* uses the $LD\_PRELOAD environment variable that is interpreted by [**ld.so(8)**](/man/os/pulseaudio/ld.so.8) and thus does not work for SUID binaries and statically built executables.

Equivalent to using *padsp* is starting an application with $LD\_PRELOAD set to *libpulsedsp.so*

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

[**-h | --help**](#h)

Show help.

[**-s** *SERVER*](#s)

Set the PulseAudio server to connect to.

[**-n** *NAME*](#n)

The client application name that shall be passed to the server when connecting.

[**-m** *NAME*](#m)

The stream name that shall be passed to the server when creating a stream.

[**-M**](#M)

Disable */dev/mixer* emulation.

[**-S**](#S)

Disable */dev/sndstat* emulation.

[**-D**](#D)

Disable */dev/dsp* emulation.

[**-d**](#d)

Enable debug output.

# [AUTHORS](#AUTHORS)

The PulseAudio Developers <pulseaudio-discuss (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; PulseAudio is available from **http://pulseaudio.org/**

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**pulseaudio(1)**](/man/os/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.1), [**pasuspender(1)**](/man/os/pulseaudio/pasuspender.1), [**ld.so(8)**](/man/os/pulseaudio/ld.so.8)

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Document: padsp(1) from pulseaudio 17.0-r12 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio