Re: HW mix

[Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:06:54PM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> 
> > Dino wrote:
> > >    i want to mix some pcm streams using hardware (where possible). One process
> > > with some thread witch want to play with one device (hw:0,0). Actually i simply
> > > open the device as it can (32 at max for me) with snd_pcm_open() and hw:0,0 as
> > > the device. It's seems to work but i don't know if it's the rigth way.
> > 
> > "hw:0,0" will fail if another program has already opened it.
> > Use "hw:0" which instructs ALSA to open the first available subdevice.
> 
> Nope, hw:0,0 is correct (CARD,DEVICE). You meant probably hw:0,0,0 
> (CARD,DEVICE,SUBDEVICE).

Is there anything wrong with using "hw:0" instead of "hw:0,0", or are they
equivalent?  It's what I've always used, without issue.

-- 
Glenn Maynard


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