Can I mix more sources when oss device is taken ?

Can I mix more sources when oss device is taken ?

[Robert Rozman]

Hi,

I'm using mythtv (great PVR gui app) and currently it seems like it's native
alsa support is broken (oss works ok). So I have to give up dmix access and
get exclusive access to sound device to mythtv only (through oss emulation
on dev/dsp).

But since I'd love to be able to access sound device also from other apps
(for speech synthesis, messages):
- I wonder if there is possibility to somehow mix other sounds coming from
dmix or native alsa interfaces to oss one
- how to easily check if oss device is taken (possibly with some CLI tool) ?
- are there any other possibilities for workaround ?

Thanks in advance,

Robert.



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Re: Can I mix more sources when oss device is taken ?

[Florian Schmidt]

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 13:41:12 +0200
"Robert Rozman" <rozman@fri.uni-lj.si> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using mythtv (great PVR gui app) and currently it seems like it's native
> alsa support is broken (oss works ok). So I have to give up dmix access and
> get exclusive access to sound device to mythtv only (through oss emulation
> on dev/dsp).
> 
> But since I'd love to be able to access sound device also from other apps
> (for speech synthesis, messages):
> - I wonder if there is possibility to somehow mix other sounds coming from
> dmix or native alsa interfaces to oss one
> - how to easily check if oss device is taken (possibly with some CLI tool) ?
> - are there any other possibilities for workaround ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Robert.

Have a look at the alsa-oss package [includeing the aoss script].. More info here:

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=aoss


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