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 21:05 schrieb Jaroslav Kysela:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Paul Davis wrote:
> > >what you say seems to be valid to me, but not if you implement smart
> > > dmix the way I said =). The way I suggested *every* application would
> > > connect to smart dmix, and none directly to alsa lib (except those that
> > > use devices like hw: - and those should never be mixed). Since every
> > > stream is connected to smart dmix, there is no need to *reroute*
> > > anything in the case of needed mixing. The only thing that has to
> > > happen, is that the new stream, that has to be mixed into the existing
> > > one due to hardware limitations has to be resampled etc. to make mixing
> > > possible.
> >
> > believe or not, i actually think that peter is right here. if dmix
> > works well enough to be used by any application, then i think it
> > should be used for all non-hw accesses unless the user configures it
> > otherwise. if it doesn't work this well, it should :)
>
> Ok, maybe we all talk about same thing. Sure, if the code is matured
> enough, we can use it as default. But I only want to note that dmix
> - even with one stream - won't be ever equal to the raw hardware access
> (hw:#,#).

Hum,

about the "maturity" of dmix - I cant realy comment on it. All I know is, that 
it should be possible to do what I am suggesting eventualy. Since I am not a 
coder I dont have any idea on the restrictions/limitations of the current 
dmix implementation, and how hard it is to overcome them.
All I know is: Its possible, and you are the best guys on the job, so you can 
do it =). It would (in my opinion) be the biggest achievment in easiness to 
setup soundcards since many years. And its worth some effort to make it work.
How dmix would handle a single stream - I dont know why it should be modified 
by dmix. But appart from that, the "smartdmix" would just pass through single 
soundstreams, they wouldnt ever get near any dmixing...

Peter
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