From: Olaf Dabrunz <od@suse.de>
To: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: ALSA vs. OSS
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:24:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120142422.GA14811@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401192036070.3707@pnote.perex-int.cz>
On 19-Jan-04, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > So, what are the reasons for ALSA to become "default" in 2.6?
> > I know it gives somekind of nice features, but ALSA didn't let me to
> > open two sound sources (like XMMS and Quake3) at the same time, so I
> > guess it is not really done yet, or is it?
>
> We don't do this in kernel. We implemented the direct stream mixing in our
> library (userspace). If your applications already uses ALSA APIs or if you
> redirect the OSS ioctls to ALSA library (our aoss library), you can enjoy
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
How can this be done? Just by creating symlinks?
> multiple sounds.
>
> Of course, using hardware which can do the hardware mixing is still
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oh, so ALSA does not use the hardware mixing capabilities of the
emu10k-chips?
Will this be possible sometime?
> better. It's the same difference like between sw 3D rendering and hw 3D
> rendering.
>
> Jaroslav
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Olaf Dabrunz (od / odabrunz), SUSE Linux AG, Nürnberg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-20 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-19 17:18 ALSA vs. OSS Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-19 17:48 ` Steve Youngs
2004-01-19 18:21 ` Travis Morgan
2004-01-20 8:58 ` Gábor Lénárt
2004-01-20 9:46 ` Heinz Ulrich Stille
2004-01-20 13:18 ` Mark Borgerding
2004-01-20 14:03 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:07 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:17 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:28 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:37 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:41 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-02-25 22:21 ` Markus Hästbacka
[not found] ` <20040120170658.GB23351@widomaker.com>
2004-01-20 17:35 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:08 ` Heinz Ulrich Stille
2004-01-20 15:13 ` Alistair John Strachan
2004-01-20 15:19 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-22 23:53 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2004-01-23 8:31 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-20 19:00 ` Eric Sandall
2004-01-21 11:03 ` Dale Weber
2004-01-21 18:06 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-24 8:21 ` Travis Morgan
2004-01-20 19:24 ` Brian McGroarty
2004-01-20 19:46 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-19 18:08 ` Raphaël RIGO
2004-01-19 19:42 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-20 14:24 ` Olaf Dabrunz [this message]
2004-01-20 14:44 ` Thomas Dodd
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401201524230.2010@pnote.perex-int.cz>
2004-01-20 14:48 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-01-20 15:06 ` Takashi Iwai
[not found] <20040119174543.59620.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com>
2004-01-19 18:06 ` Markus Hästbacka
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2004-01-21 2:40 Jonathan Boler
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