Am Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:06:16 +0100 schrieb YoYo Siska <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 03:30:24AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> >
> > > dmix *may* be able to handle multiple audio streams (in practice, in
> > > my personal experience, it always requires more work than PA); but it
> > > will never be able to do the other stuff PA handles.
> >
> > This seems like a dumb question (for I was a strict PA denier until recently
> > and have been using alsa-only since always), but does PA handle OSS
> > applications better than alsa/dmix? Whenever I want to use sidplay, which
> > only
> > speaks OSS, I need to stop all other audio programs (e.g. press Stop in the
> > Clementine player if it's only paused), or else /dev/dsp was busy.
>
> PA doesn't care about oss (/dev/dsp). It opens the soundcard through
> normal alsa interface (which means /dev/dsp becomes busy). You can
> either kill pulseaudio, or tell pulseaudio to suspend the correspondig
> sink (not sure what exactly happens if an audio stream through PA is active
> etc..).
There is also padsp:
"padsp starts the specified program and redirects its access to OSS
compatible audio devices (/dev/dsp and auxiliary devices) to a PulseAudio
sound server."
[...]
>
> yoyo
>
>
HTH
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