From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: What are the "plugins" in alsa-plugins useful for? Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:51:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1111911817.18414.29.camel@thanatos> <1112109911.26812.27.camel@thanatos> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1112109911.26812.27.camel@thanatos> Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Thomas Hood Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:25:11 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 16:31 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Do you mean the purposes of plugins included in alsa-plugins package? > > > > If yes: The jack plugin was formerly in alsa-lib. > > > Yes, but what does this plugin do? Does it allow jackd to be used as if > it were a device? I.e., > > application with ALSA output -> libasound -> jack > > ? Yes. And vice versa for capture. > I assume so because jackd has its own plugin for sending output to ALSA > (i.e., in the opposite direction). > > > > The oss plugin is the plugin to emulate ALSA API on OSS drivers. > > > I.e., > > application with ALSA output -> libasound -> OSS device > > ? Yes, exactly. > Second, how does one use these plugins? Can you provide an > example .asoundrc file? Specify "jack" or "oss" pcm type after installing these plugins. For example, pcm.jack { type jack playback_ports { 0 alsa_pcm:playback_1 1 alsa_pcm:playback_1 } } pcm.oss { type oss device /dev/dsp } Then use like % aplay -Dplug:jack foo.wav Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click