Documentation/media/uapi/dvb/audio-pause.rst

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.. _AUDIO_PAUSE:

===========
AUDIO_PAUSE
===========

Name
----

AUDIO_PAUSE

.. attention:: This ioctl is deprecated

Synopsis
--------

.. c:function:: int  ioctl(int fd, AUDIO_PAUSE)
    :name: AUDIO_PAUSE

Arguments
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       -  int fd

       -  File descriptor returned by a previous call to open().


Description
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This ioctl call suspends the audio stream being played. Decoding and
playing are paused. It is then possible to restart again decoding and
playing process of the audio stream using AUDIO_CONTINUE command.


Return Value
------------

On success 0 is returned, on error -1 and the ``errno`` variable is set
appropriately. The generic error codes are described at the
:ref:`Generic Error Codes <gen-errors>` chapter.