On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:54:33PM +0200, Lars Heineken wrote: > I think the issue is simple. The sound-device can only be opened once. So either >xmms or alsaplayer gets it. The Solution you're talking about is using a sound deamon >(like esd, or arts) that can handle multiple clients. The only problem might be that >the alsaplayer is using nothing but the native alsa-driver, so he's always blocking >the sound port, as he can't be run using a sound daemon for output.
There is an esd output plugin available for alsaplayer, just use -o esound. AlsaPlayer also supports the JACK sound daemon for very low latency performance. Unfortunately it's one of only 3 apps that support JACK right now ;-) This should change soon, hopefully... Regards, Andy _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user