http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html#pcm_plugins
this is a doxygen created documentation of alsa-lib. you could define any of these plugins, configurations in your .asoundrc. you should also take a look in asoundrc.txt which comes with your alsa-lib. there are some usefull examples, and some more plugins not mentioned in the api-documentation. i started to write a kind of asoundrc-mini-howto but doesnt finished it till yet, cause of lack of time. (a first version is at: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=AlsaTips). as i recognized now, its NOT possible to play multiple streams on/to aserver (someone should correct me if i'm wrong), but you can use it to play soundstreams over a network or socket to a given pcm-device. at first the server and controldevice have to be defined as for example: ctl.shm_test { type shm server server_test ctl ens1371 } server.server_test { host localhost socket '/tmp/alsa.sock' } then the shared memory device: pcm.shm_test { type shm server server_test pcm ens1371 } pcm must be a real-device where the server is running! then you have to start aserver with the defined server name: aserver server_test after this you can play (or record?) from/to the server as for example: aplay -D shm_test test.wav i do not really know for what this is good for in the current state, but maybe a real shared access is possible in future (or now with some hidden options?), you have to try out. for shared access off different apps to one pcm-device i recommend to use jack, alsaplayer and ecasound has a plugin for jack and maybe some more apps in a near future. ____ joy On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, joy ping wrote: > > > try jack (http://jackit.sourceforge.net/). > > > > also ALSA has a kind of soundserver, look in the api-'docs' how to set it > > up. > > > > I browsed the API docs from the website (but that was for alsa 0.5?) but > couldn't find anything about this. Can you tell me what to search for > exactly..? > > Thanks! > > > - Pasi Kärkkäinen > > ^ > . . > Linux > / - \ > Choice.of.the > .Next.Generation. > > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
