From: Brian McGroarty <brian@mcgroarty.net>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ALSA vs. OSS
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:24:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120192401.GA5685@mcgroarty.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <microsoft-free.87vfn7bzi1.fsf@eicq.dnsalias.org>
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:48:54AM +1000, Steve Youngs wrote:
> * Markus H?stbacka <midian@ihme.org> writes:
>
> > but ALSA didn't let me to open two sound sources (like XMMS and
> > Quake3) at the same time, so I guess it is not really done yet, or
> > is it?
>
> Works for me. Right now I've got 3 instances of mpg123 playing 3
> different MP3s and XEmacs playing a big .wav file and an audio CD
> playing. It's a horrible jumbled mess of noise coming out of my
> speakers, but it is working.
You probably have a Soundblaster Live or similar, which has multiple
hardware wave outputs.
OSS has software mixing. ALSA seems designed for people relying on
esd, aRts or similar multiplexing daemons.
It's possible to run a program via 'esddsp' or 'artsdsp' to reroute
/dev/dsp to the daemon, but the overhead isn't so nice, and the output
quality is often wanting.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-20 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-19 17:18 ALSA vs. OSS Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-19 17:48 ` Steve Youngs
2004-01-19 18:21 ` Travis Morgan
2004-01-20 8:58 ` Gábor Lénárt
2004-01-20 9:46 ` Heinz Ulrich Stille
2004-01-20 13:18 ` Mark Borgerding
2004-01-20 14:03 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:07 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:17 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:28 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:37 ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-20 14:41 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-02-25 22:21 ` Markus Hästbacka
[not found] ` <20040120170658.GB23351@widomaker.com>
2004-01-20 17:35 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-01-20 14:08 ` Heinz Ulrich Stille
2004-01-20 15:13 ` Alistair John Strachan
2004-01-20 15:19 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-22 23:53 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2004-01-23 8:31 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-20 19:00 ` Eric Sandall
2004-01-21 11:03 ` Dale Weber
2004-01-21 18:06 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-01-24 8:21 ` Travis Morgan
2004-01-20 19:24 ` Brian McGroarty [this message]
2004-01-20 19:46 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-19 18:08 ` Raphaël RIGO
2004-01-19 19:42 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-01-20 14:24 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-01-20 14:44 ` Thomas Dodd
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401201524230.2010@pnote.perex-int.cz>
2004-01-20 14:48 ` Olaf Dabrunz
2004-01-20 15:06 ` Takashi Iwai
[not found] <20040119174543.59620.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com>
2004-01-19 18:06 ` Markus Hästbacka
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2004-01-21 2:40 Jonathan Boler
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