On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Rich Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You are running esd, right?
>
> Ummm....actually no, I'm not, but I am using Alsa as opposed to OSS.
Interesting that Alsa allows multiple processes to open /dev/dsp.
(OSS uses exclusive locking it seems, which is a bit silly for /dev/dsp
because reading and writing to it are quite different channels)
Even more interesting, if I've understand what you've said, is that for
the /dev/dsp (or whatever) *reading* process, Alsa doesn't transfer
input data from the microphone, but rather, provides the stream coming
from the /dev/dsp *writing* process (xmms).
I wouldn't have guessed this, thinking rec(1) would still get the
microphone input (zeroes if a mic wasn't attached) ...
Pretty neat!
Karl
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