November 11, 2007 PAD 4

### NAME

pad - Pseudo audio device driver

### SYNOPSIS

pseudo-device pad audio* at audiobus?

### DESCRIPTION

pad is a pseudo-device driver which provides support for feeding back PCM data from a consumer of the audio(4) API to userland.

### EXAMPLES

The following example streams an MP3 to an Apple AirTunes compatible device:

  `

      $ rtunes - < /dev/pad0 &
      $ mpg123 -a /dev/sound1 mozart.mp3

  `

### FILES

The pad pseudo-device driver receives data from ```/dev/soundN` and feeds the raw PCM output to ```/dev/padN`.

  ```/dev/soundN`

  ```/dev/padN`

### SEE ALSO

audio(4)

### HISTORY

The pad driver appeared in NetBSD5.0.

### AUTHORS

Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>