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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>
Cc: perex@perex.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Alsa, Kernel OSS
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:15:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hisv0h1ev.wl@alsa2.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030303170946.74affcbb.gigerstyle@gmx.ch>

At Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:09:46 +0100,
Marc Giger wrote:
> 
> > > Why can't I play more than one sources on the same time with such a
> > > card? All programs which would access /dev/dsp blocks until the other
> > > programs frees the device... It isn't very useful. 
> > > 
> > > I have no such problems with multiple sources as example on my
> > > SBLive or on my yamaha sound card with the snd-ymfpci driver. 
> > > 
> > > Do I miss some settings?
> > 
> > no, it's the hardware limitation.
> 
> Ok, I see..cheap hardware..
> 
> But multiple sources on window$ works..
> In this case, windows mixes the sources in software - right?

yes.

> Is it a big "problem" to do this also in Linux?
> This would be an interesting work for me:-)
> Perhaps a program as interface between userspace and alsa-driver?

the latest alsa-lib supports the dynamic software mixing.
it works like a charm :)

> Or better directly in the alsa-driver? 

no, basically it's a user-space job.


ciao,

Takashi

      reply	other threads:[~2003-03-03 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-01 22:17 Alsa, Kernel OSS Marc Giger
2003-03-03 15:28 ` Takashi Iwai
2003-03-03 16:09   ` Marc Giger
2003-03-03 16:15     ` Takashi Iwai [this message]

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