From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Subject: How can OSS applications support multiple streams? Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:41:40 -0600 Message-ID: <473390A4.8070208@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from de01egw01.freescale.net (de01egw01.freescale.net [192.88.165.102]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B51243E3 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 23:41:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from de01smr02.am.mot.com (de01smr02.freescale.net [10.208.0.151]) by de01egw01.freescale.net (8.12.11/de01egw01) with ESMTP id lA8MffcZ004094 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:41:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from [10.82.19.119] (ld0169-tx32.am.freescale.net [10.82.19.119]) by de01smr02.am.mot.com (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id lA8MfesW006401 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:41:40 -0600 (CST) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org I've written an ALSA driver that supports only one playback stream, because that's what our hardware supports. I have a customer that has an OSS application that tries to open 32 simultaneous playback streams, which obviously doesn't work. What do I (or the customer) need to do to get 32 streams to work? Is this what a sound server is for? If so, which one should I use? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale