[linux-audio-user] (no subject)

[Florian Schmidt]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:25:43 -0500
"Eric Steinberg" <ergomatic at mail.com> wrote:

> 3. With a multi channel device, can multiple instances of mplayer use specific outputs?  How can this be assigned?

for this you need .asoundrc magic to split the multichannel device into
stereo [or whatever] pairs. But usually the professional multichannel
devices allow only one app, so a mixed treatment using dmix is needed.

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=1712+.asoundrc

might give you an idea about it.

Flo

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