On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Tapio Kelloniemi wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:15:49PM +0100, Atte André
Jensen wrote:
I didn't really learn anything new, except it
answered my initial
question "can multiple alsa clients at the same time" with the answer
"No".
This is wrong, since applications which use alsa library
(libasound)
can use the same card at the same time if their output device has been
set to dmix:... Programs which use alsa's kernel api (like sox) or which
Yes, and actually it's not even limited to applications supporting
libasound [1], but also plain OSS apps if you use aoss (alsa-oss package)
wrapper. See for example the following links:
http://www.thepenguin.org.uk/alsa/
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin (see sections 4-5)
[1] ALSA apps:
http://alsa-project.org/applications.php
.. and lots more not yet mentioned on the list.
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