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From: Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2@gmail.com>
To: ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
Subject: Re: Playing multiple sounds at the same time
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 10:34:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h2u4f3252891005031934h2a950ac4z1e9036738c88e27e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100430104308.GE21607@sirena.org.uk>

2010/4/30 Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:38:49PM +0200, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote:
>
> > Now I want to play sounds 1 to 3 at the same time. My question is now:
> Can
> > ALSA do automatic mixing for me here or do I have to do the mixing on my
> > own? In other words, can I simply feed all these three sound streams to
> > ALSA or do I have to mix them into a fourth audio stream first and
> feeding
> > this new fourth stream to ALSA then?
>
> The easiest thing for your application is to just open and play multiple
> audio streams and allow a system mixing daemon such as PulseAudio to
> take care of the mixing.
>
>
Are you sure that your program can connect to PA server multilple times ?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-04  2:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-30 10:38 Playing multiple sounds at the same time Andreas Falkenhahn
2010-04-30 10:43 ` Mark Brown
2010-04-30 12:36   ` Andreas Falkenhahn
2010-05-04  2:34   ` Raymond Yau [this message]
2010-05-04  8:23     ` Andreas Falkenhahn

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