On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Which devices can a mono stream be played on? > It seems that the only device a mono stream can be played on is the > "default" pcm device. > > Devices like "front" and "rear" are stereo only devices. > It would be nice if alsa-lib would open one of these devices, and if the > application tries to set 1 channel instead of 2, then somehow make > alsa-lib do the duplication of the channels. > > A similar thing should happen for "surround40" device. If 1 channel is > asked for, alsa-lib should duplicate it for all channels. If 2 channels > are asked for, then alsa-lib should create 4 channels automatically. > > alsa-lib seems to manage to do this sort of thing for sample rates, and > sample formats, why not number of channels ?
Have you tried 'plug:front' combination ;-) Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SuSE Labs ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel