From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: AthlonRob Subject: Re: Multiple Audio Streams Date: 07 Oct 2002 17:44:44 -0700 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1034037884.7319.9.camel@duron> References: <3D9F3D84.4040102@boom.org.il> <1033859918.1118.24.camel@duron> <3DA15968.1000205@superbug.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3DA15968.1000205@superbug.demon.co.uk> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Sagi Bashari List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 02:52, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > mypc: /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p# cat info > subdevices_count: 1 > subdevices_avail: 1 <- This tells you how many streams the sound card > can handle in hardware at the same time. > E.g. Only one application at a time can use the card. Thanks, that does help some. But, I fear the subdevice_count and avail are only reporting the numbers that the driver supports... not the number that the hardware itself supports. At least, I hope so, because mine is reporting as 1 & 0 (I have esd running). :-) > I also have a SB Live in another machine, the subdevices_avail is then > 32 because the SB Live can handle 32 streams at once in hardware. I can probably scrounge up a SB Live if need be... maybe I'll do that so I'm able to play multiple streams (if we can't get a better driver written, that is). > There are other applications/tools you can use, one of which is "JACK" > that allows for multiple audio streams mixed in software and lots of > other cool stuff. Cool, I'll see if I can find some information about that. I hadn't heard of it before... is it GPL'd? Rob ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf