On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 10:49, Sagi Bashari wrote: > On 10/5/2002 6:34 PM, AthlonRob wrote: > > >Are you sure 'Hardware mixing' is what you need to play multiple files > >... I got the impression it was 'Multiple I/O' (but I could be totally > >mistaken). > > Yes, I'm sure. See section 3.9 in > http://www.alsa-project.org/~jfulmer/alsa-faq.html.
Good find. Now, I *am* relatively certain my chip supports 'hardware mixing' ... I just read a review which pointed out: 1 Primary buffer available 255 Total 2D hardware mixing buffers available 255 Static 2D hardware mixing buffers available 255 Streaming 2D hardware mixing buffers available 64 Total 3D hardware buffers available 64 Static 3D hardware buffers available 64 Streaming 3D hardware buffers available So I should be good to go in that respect. > I had a Trident 4DWave card some years ago, and back then it did work > with multiopen. I think it's disabled now - I read it in one of the > packages documentation. My current GTXP card is much more advanced and > supports mixing as well according to the site (I belive most modern > soundcards do, only that alsa does not support this feature in all of them). This isn't a very busy list, I guess. I would think this would be a very frequently asked question... either that or it was just luck of the draw that we both had such similar questions less than 12 hours apart... > I found in in the "SoundCard Matrix" section in the ALSA site - > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ the '(4)' note means that a card > supports hardware mixing. Ok, thanks. Now that I know *that* is what hardware mixing is... I see no (4) next to my chip, just that it is in CVS. My driver is based around the Intel i8x0 series (nVidia's release was a patch to this) ... none of them (they are out of CVS) have the (4) next to them. :-( Guess my next stop is the developers list. Thank you for your help on the matter... and sorry I don't have a solution to your problem; I'm newer to ALSA than you, I guess. Please share the solution when you find it, though! :-) Rob ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
