>> Still, don't we already *have* a feeding thread for the sound card? I mean
>> it doesn't just grab the memory buffer all by itself whenever it wants?
>
>Nope. The idea for the dmix plugin is that we share the DMA ring buffer 
>with more threads (processes). There is no "master" thread which operates 
>exclusively with the DMA buffer.

that would be called "JACK", right ?

--p


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