On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 19:57 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote: > On Wednesday 01 Mar 2006 19:03, Lee Revell wrote: > > Actually I think Julian has a point - I can't find the doc anywhere > > that says you output to the front speakers by opening the "front" > > device and rear the "rear" device, that apps should open the > > "default" PCM by default, that "hw:x" should only be used for special > > cases where direct hardware access is requires (like JACK), etc. > > Only half a dozen people in the world know these things. And here you > are leaking them onto a public mailing list!
aplay -L ... cards 'cards.pcm' front 'cards.pcm.front' rear 'cards.pcm.rear' center_lfe 'cards.pcm.center_lfe' side 'cards.pcm.side' surround40 'cards.pcm.surround40' surround41 'cards.pcm.surround41' surround50 'cards.pcm.surround50' surround51 'cards.pcm.surround51' surround71 'cards.pcm.surround71' iec958 'cards.pcm.iec958' spdif 'cards.pcm.iec958' modem 'cards.pcm.modem' phoneline 'cards.pcm.phoneline' default 'cards.pcm.default' dmix 'cards.pcm.dmix' dsnoop 'cards.pcm.dsnoop' Lee
