---
name: "distmp3host"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "distmp3"
version: "0.1.9.ds1-4.3"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/distmp3host"
---

# distmp3host(1)

daemon for distributed mp3-encoding across multiple hosts on a network

## NAME

distmp3host - daemon for distributed mp3-encoding across multiple hosts on a network

## SYNOPSIS

**distmp3host**

## DESCRIPTION

distmp3host is daemon part of distmp3, a utility for distributed mp3-encoding across multiple hosts on a network.

The daemon binds port 4600 on localhost and waits for connections. The client connects to a remote host on port 4600 and a handshake occurs.

If the handshake goes well the daemon creates two named-pipes (fifos) for the mp3-encoding program to use. It also forks one child as reading or writing from/to the fifos is a blocking system call.

The daemon passes the recieved wav data to the output-fifo (which the mp3-encoding program reads its data from).

The daemon reads the encoded mp3-data from the input-fifo (the one the mp3-encoder write it's encoded mp3 to) and sends it back to the client who writes it down in a file.

Default values are used if none specified, and those defaults are read from **/etc/distmp3/distmp3.conf**

## OPTIONS

- **-p port**

  The port to listen on.

- **-s datasize**

  The datachunksize to use when sending data to the distmp3host server.

- **-d debug**

  If **1** then debugmessages will be printed on stdout, else suppressed.

- **-df debugfile**

  If defined debugmessages will be printed to file **debugfile**

- **-w wavfifo**

  The fifo used for writing the wavfile to so the encoder can read it.

- **-m mp3fifo**

  The fifo used by the encoder to write the mp3stream to.

- **-e program $wavfifo $mp3fifo**

  The program used for encoding the wavdata into mp3.

  $wavfifo will be replaced with what was specified with -w

  $mp3fifo will be replaced with what was specified with -m

- [distmp3(1)](/distmp3/1.md)

  ## SEE ALSO

## AUTHOR

Martin Josefsson \<gandalf@wlug.westbo.se\>. Idea for distmp3 by Peter Lindqvist \<nevyn@wlug.westbo.se\>. Manpage written by Robert Woodcock \<rcw@debian.org\>.