Re: dsnoop, dshare and dmix plugins

[Florian Bomers <Florian.Bomers@sun.com>]

just to clarify: all 3 plugins will not enable several processes to use the same
soundcard's channels, i.e. software mixing?

Thanks,
Florian


> Hi all,
> 
>         the dmix plugin was extended to support channel bindings and
> mixing code for 32-bit samples (24-bit resolution).
>         I'd like to introduce new two plugins (seems also "most wanted" by
> ALSA users): dsnoop and dshare. The dsnoop plugin allows spliting of one
> stream to more applications. And finally the dshare plugin does sharing of
> channels (thus you may use your multi-channel device for separated
> independent tasks). The ALSA configuration syntax for both of new plugins
> is same as for the dmix plugin. Please note that dshare plugin must have
> the bindings section with unique destination channels otherwise it won't
> work.
> 
>                                                 Jaroslav
> 
> -----
> Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
> ALSA Project, SuSE Labs

-- 
Florian Bomers
Java Sound
Java Software/Sun Microsystems, Inc.
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/sound/


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