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From: Irfan shaikh <irfan.shaikh@sasken.com>
Subject: Join play of pcm in multiple playback devices
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:54:16 +0530
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Hello All,

              I have written an application which supports join play of 
PCM Audio.
i.e Capture and write to playback device 1 and playback device 2 
simultaneously.

Below code is just to explain the above scenario :

/######################/

while(1)
{
     retval=snd_pcm_readi(pAlsaConfig->pcm_handle, buffer, 
pAlsaConfig->alsaBufferSize);
     snd_pcm_writei(pAlsaConfig->pcm_handle1, buffer,retval);
     snd_pcm_writei(pAlsaConfig->pcm_handle2, buffer,retval);
}

/######################/

In above case, renderer 2 lags behind the renderer 1 i.e there is delay 
between two audio devices when actually heard.


Please help me if some better implementation for join play.
I have seen some thing as snd_pcm_link(). But i was not clear with its 
usage, while doing snd_pcm_writei ???

Thanks and regards,
Irfan