Re: how to enumerate useful ALSA devices?

[Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>]

On 06.01.2012 01:06, Raymond Yau wrote:
> 2012/1/5, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>:
>> On 04.01.2012 22:47, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>>> On 04.01.2012 21:49, Andrew Eikum wrote:
>>
>>>> So I'm really stuck here. Where am I supposed to get a list of devices
>>>> that I can present to the user, including their Bluetooth devices and
>>>> virtual devices from asound.conf?
>>>
>>> I guess the preferred one is 'snd_device_name_hint()', but I don't
>>> really know if the caller is supposed to then handle surroundXX stuff
>>> themself.
>>
>> Reading your last reply made me realize that I forgot that when
>> pulseaudio is not configured, there is also the "default:CARD=foo"
>> device listed (which you noticed), so I guess one could just ignore
>> entries beginning with "front:" or "surround(40|41|50|51|71):", since
>> one can just use "default" instead of them.
>>
> 
> No , this won't work for emu10k1 and ca0106
> 
> snd-emu10k1 require "front", "surround40","surround51" and
> "surround71"  which use "multi" plugin of "front" , "rear" , "clfe" or
> "side" devices
> 
> you can play stereo stream to "rear" device

Ah, thanks for the correction.

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Anssi Hannula