On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Paul Davis wrote: > the term "polling" in not very useful here. all ALSA supported > hardware can be "polled" in the sense that a program can stop and wait > for it to be ready to read or write from. no hardware support over and > above the minimum necessary for basic audio i/o is necessary for this. > > i think you're describing something that is generally known as > "multi-open", in which the hardware supports multiple independent (but > generally synchronous) streams of audio data to be possible, and each > process that opens the device gets a new stream. the streams are mixed > in hardware before being delivered to the physical outputs. > yes sorry i ment what i suppose he ment intentionally a kind of "multi-open". maybe we can agree on this to call it multi-open-mode?
> i am not sure how "polling" (of any kind) relates to this. care to explain? > > --p > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
