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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Scott Jiang <scott.jiang.linux@gmail.com>, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: Have multiple opens removed on one device?
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:21:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110822112143.GB9232@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hipppsqe9.wl%tiwai@suse.de>

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:15:58PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Scott Jiang wrote:

> > In kernel 2.6.34 I can use aplay to play audio at the same time, alsa
> > will mix the audio.

> No, kernel part doesn't do such a thing.  If it's mixed, it must be
> in the user-space (either dmix or a daemon like pulseaudio), unless
> you hardware can do mixing by itself.

There *are* some cards (mostly older ones like emu10k) that support
multiple streams transparently but this has never been supported in
ASoC due a lack of hardware that can do it.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-22 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-22 10:13 Have multiple opens removed on one device? Scott Jiang
2011-08-22 10:15 ` Takashi Iwai
2011-08-22 11:21   ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-08-29 10:11     ` Scott Jiang
2011-09-01  3:43       ` Scott Jiang

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