On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 14:07 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > On Monday 16 January 2006 13:18, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:52 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I am trying to determine what kind of support that ALSA has on Sound > > > Blaster Audigy LS. <snip> > > > I have no idea about MIDI but the Audigy LS does not support hardware > > mixing. > > Please excuse my ignorant. But is there such thing as "software mixing" ? > Basically, what I want is for the soundcard to be used by more than one > source. For example, I want to be able to run "ogg123 song1.ogg" on a shell > instance, and run "ogg123 song2.ogg" on another shell and have both song > played. I am not sure if that what "hardware mixing" really means.
Yes, ALSA supports software mixing for cards that can't do it in hardware. But, why would you want to buy crippled Win-Hardware that makes the CPU do more work, if you have a choice? Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
