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

-sidd

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