[linux-audio-user] switching sound cards on the fly?

[Brett W. McCoy]

On 3/16/07, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:

> > Anyway, it's not supported at this time unfortunately. Maybe sometime
> > in the future. Hopefully folks out there could see some small use for
> > this. I certainly do.
>
> I was thinking of it more in terms of routing sound from a specific
> application to a specific sound card. The only thing I have in Firefox
> that runs within FF and plays sound is RealPlayer - which I understand
> doesn't work with ALSA, anyway.

You can get Realplayer to work with ALSA:

http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc6-tips.php#rplayer

You can also get the MPlayer plugin and if MPlayer is configured to
run with ALSA, so does the plugin.

-- Brett
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