In any case,
the other reason I chimed in was to thank you for your
work. The newest version of the JACK video is especially well done
and I think new users in particular will benefit.
If your card doesn't support hardware mixing then just use dmix. What's
the problem?
The problem:
1. Played Chris's JACK video. "dmix" is my "pcm.!default" in
asoundrc
and this works great, so mplayer does not block other ALSA/OSS audio.
Other ALSA/OSS apps can still access the device.
2. Now, when his video tutorial suggested I tried starting JACK to
follow along. It fails to connect for me whether I direct jackd to
use to my "default", hw:0, or to my named dmix pcm directly.
One solution is to pre-connect the vdeo audio to JACK via a jackplug
or "jacklaunch", but if the video is already playing, no dice.
Kevin