At Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:34:38 +0200,
Steffen Hein wrote:
> 
> > Jack
> 
> Nice thing but not (yet) widely supported.
> 
> > > > The ALSA driver at least has the dmix plugin, that supports
> > > > multi-playback on any cards, but I think only in stereo.
> > > Channels count is not restricted.
> > Ah, good to know.
> 
> Wouldn't be an issue anyway since the card is only stereo.
> 
> dmix is on kernel-level, right?

no.

> Is it mature and relieable? Can it be used 
> together with OSS emulation? (Application->OSS-Emulation->dmix->Alsa-Device)
 
you can try alsa-oss wrapper library.

> Jaroslav: My question from my previous mail still remains: Will multi-playback 
> be supported by the driver or isn't it supported by the card in hardware?

the hardware does NOT support it.
and the kernel driver won't support it.  it's implemented on
user-space as dmix plugin.


Takashi


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