Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:09:48 -0500 (CDT) Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all - I've got a freebsd server in the garage that has a low end soundblaster (I think) card in it that I've been using to play music. Works just fine. We moved and now I'd like to be able to have different music play in different rooms (living, family, and outside). I can do all the other wiring for speakers... But was wondering if there are any problems having three sound cards in the box and have them all work at the same time. I'm currently using flac123 to play music and would probably continue to do so... Thoughts? I've had 3 sound cards running simultaneously, playing differnet mp3's and OGG's using 3 instances of xmms. From memory I ran it for about an hour before i pulled the plug. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?
Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all - I've got a freebsd server in the garage that has a low end soundblaster (I think) card in it that I've been using to play music. Works just fine. We moved and now I'd like to be able to have different music play in different rooms (living, family, and outside). I can do all the other wiring for speakers... But was wondering if there are any problems having three sound cards in the box and have them all work at the same time. I'm currently using flac123 to play music and would probably continue to do so... Thoughts? In principle, there's no problem. But most software will only drive one audio device at a time. Also, note that running long cables at fairly low signal levels can degrade the audio quality... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?
I've got a freebsd server in the garage that has a low end soundblaster (I think) card in it that I've been using to play music. Works just fine. We moved and now I'd like to be able to have different music play in different rooms (living, family, and outside). I can do all the other wiring for speakers... But was wondering if there are any problems having three sound cards in the box and have them all work at the same time. I'm currently using flac123 to play music and would probably continue to do so... Thoughts? In principle, there's no problem. But most software will only drive one audio device at a time. Also, note that running long cables at fairly low signal levels can degrade the audio quality... Good points... but no reason I couldn't run three flac123 processes and point each to their own /dev/ entry...? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?
On 30/08/2006 19:35, Philip Hallstrom wrote: I've got a freebsd server in the garage that has a low end soundblaster (I think) card in it that I've been using to play music. Works just fine. We moved and now I'd like to be able to have different music play in different rooms (living, family, and outside). I can do all the other wiring for speakers... But was wondering if there are any problems having three sound cards in the box and have them all work at the same time. I'm currently using flac123 to play music and would probably continue to do so... Thoughts? In principle, there's no problem. But most software will only drive one audio device at a time. Also, note that running long cables at fairly low signal levels can degrade the audio quality... Good points... but no reason I couldn't run three flac123 processes and point each to their own /dev/ entry...? I'm using two sound cards all the time. One (Audigy, PCI) to make noise in my room (music/tv/etc), and the second (nVidia, onboard) to make calls with skype or listen to music late at night. I don't know about flac123 - have a look at it's manpage - but at least with xmms, mplayer and skype (that's what I've got here) you can change output /dev/dsp device to whichever you like. HTH, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org OpenPGP: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: On 30/08/2006 19:35, Philip Hallstrom wrote: I've got a freebsd server in the garage that has a low end soundblaster (I think) card in it that I've been using to play music. Works just fine. We moved and now I'd like to be able to have different music play in different rooms (living, family, and outside). I can do all the other wiring for speakers... But was wondering if there are any problems having three sound cards in the box and have them all work at the same time. I'm currently using flac123 to play music and would probably continue to do so... Thoughts? In principle, there's no problem. But most software will only drive one audio device at a time. Also, note that running long cables at fairly low signal levels can degrade the audio quality... Good points... but no reason I couldn't run three flac123 processes and point each to their own /dev/ entry...? I'm using two sound cards all the time. One (Audigy, PCI) to make noise in my room (music/tv/etc), and the second (nVidia, onboard) to make calls with skype or listen to music late at night. I don't know about flac123 - have a look at it's manpage - but at least with xmms, mplayer and skype (that's what I've got here) you can change output /dev/dsp device to whichever you like. HTH, Karol Just looking at the source a bit for libao and flac123, it appears that flac123 is capable of using multiple sound daemons to send information out to the soundcard. So, if you configure OSS and arts (assuming you have arts installed) differently in terms of which default device the daemon uses when playing sound, you should be ok I think. Other than that, I think you're stuck because OSS doesn't support sound input from multiple sources, and last I remember arts and the rest that actually supported taking sound from multiple inputs didn't support outputting sound on multiple cards simultaneously. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?
Hi all - I've got a freebsd server in the garage that has a low end soundblaster (I think) card in it that I've been using to play music. Works just fine. We moved and now I'd like to be able to have different music play in different rooms (living, family, and outside). I can do all the other wiring for speakers... But was wondering if there are any problems having three sound cards in the box and have them all work at the same time. I'm currently using flac123 to play music and would probably continue to do so... Thoughts? -philip ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
