Hello, I own an emu10k1 card, and I've always used multiple applications at the same time sharing the pcm; I always thought this was normal ( it was my first sound card apart from a "soundblaster 8" ) with pci soundcards. that was using oss, lately I tried alsa as I came across an onboard card that couldnt play multiple wave streams.
so, now two questions: I noticed that my emu10k1 with alsa could play multiple wave streams too, when the applications were "alsa" enabled. ( tried with aplay) But I noticed too, that the oss emulation ( as I use several apllications that are only oss at the same time during performing) was not capable of doing this. Is there a way to fix this? dmix seems to be the way but it doesn't work with oss emulation. also the onboard thing could not play multiple waves with alsa either. I this a common thing for today's sound chips? or is it simply a driver issue? for the first time I understand the need for stupid things like esd and arts... Is there any documentation wich cards can play multiple streams or not? its not even mentioned in advertisements for those cards... I'm curious to know if there's anybody else experiencing the same issues; The thing is I know about jack and I like it, but may of the applications I prefer to use are just really simple and old or only have oss implementations, and work just fine in combination with my older emu10k1; but now I'm going to buy new hardware it becomes an issue... cheers, Matthijs. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
