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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Subject: Re: alsa-lib has anyone ever looked at taking it cross
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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:57:09 +0200
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On 25-07-08 14:49, Colin Guthrie wrote:

> of ALSA is doing ALSA a massive disservice. Sure, the software mixing
> can be done by Alsa's DMIX but DMIX is just a "sound server" anyway,
> so what specifically makes DMIX better or worse than PA in this
> regard? Because DMIX is started automatically? Because it's in kernel
> space?

Just a quick aside -- DMIX isn't in fact in kernel-space.

Rene.