mathojojo wrote: > Sounds devices on linux systems are managed by ALSA drivers. But when an > application stream something to the ALSA device, this device is locked > (and of course, can't be opened by another app). So, for example, if you > are listening music on Youtube, you won't be able to hear sounds from a > movie played by VLC, because the ALSA device will already be in use. > > Pulseaudio is the solution to avoid thous rectrictions. It's a sound > server. Pulseaudio open an ALSA device (set as default), and appear in > ALSA as a virtual ALSA device.So all sounds, from each application is > sent to pulseaudio, and Pulseaudio mixes all thous sounds to only one > stream that can be sent to the default ALSA device. > > So, in my case, When I set my squeezelite config file with "default - > Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server ", in fact I'm > selecting the virtual ALSA device "Pulseaudio". > > I could select another ALSA device, but if I do so, the ALSA device > selected will be locked by squeezelite and I won't be able to play > anything else. > > I hope I'm clear enough ;) > > If you see an error in my demonstration, please tell me. > > Thank you for your help
And thank you for your explanation :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Man in a van's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43627 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109457 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
