Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 21 May 2008, Zico wrote: > > The funny thing is, if i want to play any sound from any sites with > > firefox, > > it plays.... but at the same time if i wanna play something from my hdd, it > > doesn`t!!! :( > > This means that firefox (or some program that it is using like esound > or pulse or the flashplayer) is "holding" the sound device. This > prevents other programs from queueing audio stuff. > > If you want multiple programs to be able to access your sound > hardware at the same time, then you need to activate the "dmix" alsa > plugins. I had this figured out a while ago and wrote the enclosed > ".asoundrc" file. It works for me but I've forgotten why ;-) > > If you do check this out and it works please write some documentation!
I think the recent version of alsa don't require mucking around with asoundrc to enable dmix and software mixing. It works out of the box. Right now, I don't have a custom asoundrc and I can open up as many instances of mplayer I want. Maybe he is using a sound server ? Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
