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From: Eliot Blennerhassett <linux@audioscience.com>
To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: snd_pcm_open device names
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:13:51 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803061313.51242.linux@audioscience.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47CF2DE2.3010506@googlemail.com>

On Thursday 06 March 2008 12:33:54 Reiner wrote:
> with
> snd_pcm_open (handle, "default", SND_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, 0)
> I can open a device twice
> with
> snd_pcm_open (handle, "plughw:0,0", SND_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, 0)
> the 2. call fails with error -16.
>
> The docu says:
> The default device is equal to plug plugin with hw plugin as slave.

Probably the doc is in error. The default device these days is usually asym 
(dmix+dsnoop) which allows the multiple opens.

--
Eliot
www.audioscience.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-05 23:33 snd_pcm_open device names Reiner
2008-03-06  0:13 ` Eliot Blennerhassett [this message]
2008-03-06 18:34   ` Reiner
2008-03-06 18:36     ` Lee Revell

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