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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: What are subdevices?
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:11:43 +0100
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dE wrote:
> A device seems like the output streams the sound card supports. Like HDMI, DP, analog etc...
>
> So what's a subdevice?

A subdevice is an output streams the sound card supports.

Typically, a device has multiple subdevices if the card supports hardware mixing; all
the subdevices end up at the same physical output.


Regards,
Clemens