On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:37:45 +0100, Christoph Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How could I share the sound resources between different > > apps? > > You need a system which allows all of your applications to > play sound. Especially mplayer does support most of the > existing systems. try mplayer -ao help > > Unfortunately, there are applications which can only > use /dev/dsp and will therefore block your audio device. Such > apps cannot be used to play through a mixing layer. > > You can try a soundserver like arts (KDE), esound (Gnome) or > JACK (professional audio) or >DMIX (alsa software mixing). For setting up dmix with alsa try this howto: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_sound_mixer_aka_dmix
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