On 6 Mar 2003, Brad Hilton wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 10:32, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > > To me, this sounds like the perfect way to solve the current esd/arts
> > > nightmare. Are there any latency or CPU gotchas compared to esd/arts?
> >
> > The "mixing" code for one task takes around 1% of CPU time for the 48kHz
> > stream on 850Mhz PIII CPU. Latency is same as for direct exlusive
> > playback.
>
> Are there any plans on making the dmix plugin the default alsa
> interface? Since most soundcards don't support hardware mixing it seems
> like most people would love this as a default choice. I suppose it
> would be ideal if the oss emulation could also be piped through dmix.
> Unfortunately, I have yet to make any of my alsa-enabled apps work with
> dmix. But I'm still excited! :)
I've explained before that it's not perfect to make this plugin as
default. There is also hardware which does the mixing itself. Users can
override the 'default' configuration in ~/.asoundrc file themselves:
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmix:CARD=0,DEVICE=0,RATE=48000"
}
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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