Am Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:06:16 +0100 schrieb YoYo Siska <y...@gl.ksp.sk>:
> 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 -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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