[linux-audio-user] ALSA device sharing?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Mon Apr 14 03:49:01 EDT 2003


Hallo,
Mikhail Ramendik hat gesagt: // Mikhail Ramendik wrote:

> Does alsa allow several programs to use one device, with soft mixing?

Yes, ALSA does support soft-mixing, but you have to use the ALSA
plugin devices made for that and you need at least alsa-0.9.1, I
guess. Try using "plug:dmix" instead of the default alsa device.

There's no excuse for running Arts or Esd anymore. ;)

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__



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