Hello, I'm an ALSA newb and have a question regarding ALSA and how it enables more than one process to share a mixer.
F.E. Let us say KDE/artsd has opened an ALSA mixer. Is it possible for other applications (F.E. aplay) to also open the same ALSA mixer and have ALSA perform the mixing between the two sources? I have tried and can not seem to get this to work. If this is not possible currently, what would prevent ALSA from growing to provide this functionality? Does ALSA have plans to provide this? If my sound card had hardware mixing, would that completely solve the problem? It would seem that if ALSA provided the software mixing then the esd/arts problems (hogging the single mixer) would go away and no third party application would ever have to write specific code to handle arts/esd/JACK. Java 1.4.2 has ALSA support and that would work too. Comments? Thank you. -- Schedule your world with ScheduleWorld.com http://www.ScheduleWorld.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- 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
