From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Bomers Subject: Re: dsnoop, dshare and dmix plugins Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:13:18 -0800 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3E7A3CFE.4A6293A5@sun.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 > 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/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Tablet PC. Does your code think in ink? You could win a Tablet PC. Get a free Tablet PC hat just for playing. What are you waiting for? http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr5043en