Re: smart and automatic use of dmix and dsnoop - feature suggestion.

[Peter Kirk <pwk.linuxfan@gmx.de>]

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Am Montag, 17. November 2003 18:16 schrieb Mark Hubbard:
> Peter Kirk has an important point. Default dmix ("smart" could be a
> misnomer) will only work as the default pcm, therefore if one application
> is set-up to use surround51 and another set-up to use default, then nothing
> is going to be mixed. It would be better, for the sake of simplicity and
> ALSA's target user, to abandon the various pcm definitions and only use
> default which would work with all set-ups....I believe this is what Peter
> means by "smart".
Well,

no smart dmix is no "misnomer". What I mean with it is: a implementation of 
dmix that only starts to mix if there is a need to do it - as long as the 
soundcard can handle streams without mixing the smart dmix will not do 
anything, except pass untouched streams to the hardware...when the first 
stream that would exceed hardware limitation is sent to the sound device, 
smart dmix would start mixing this stream into one of the existing ones.
You name a device I didnt know... "surround51". But, since this is what I call 
a "consumer app device", smart dmix would lure behind that too, and apply 
mixing magic if necessary.

Peter
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