Re: Single process freeze when opening capture device

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Thu, 29 May 2003 15:13:11 +0200,
Abramo Bagnara wrote:
> 
> Jaroslav Kysela ha scritto:
> > On Thu, 29 May 2003, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>What about a "dir" field in common section of pcm configuration?
> >>
> >>   dir STR	# PCM allowed directions "playback", "capture", "both" (default)
> > 
> > 
> > I'd like to solve the problem with same names, but different 
> > configurations for streams.
> > 
> > I have an idea like:
> > 
> > pcm.name {
> > 	... global configuration ...
> > 	playback {
> > 		... playback configuration ...
> > 	}
> > 	capture {
> > 		... capture configuration ...
> > 	}
> > }
> 
> I'm far from convinced that to have same name for different things is a 
> good idea, and in this case I'd propose to have:
> 
> pcmc.name {
> }
> 
> pcmp.name {
> }
> 
> then specifying different namespaces for different things.
> 
> This also permits to leave current
> pcm.name {
> }
> 
> unmodified (although with lower priority wrt pcmc and pcmp).

i would accept both ideas.

IIRC, the pcm is looked up through the definition in
/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf, so if we have pcmc and pcmp definitions,
we'll need to rewrite (add) these look-up, too?


Takashi


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