8 Feb
2005
8 Feb
'05
6:45 p.m.
Arnold Krille wrote:
On the second tab of this dialog you will find a drop-down-box asking you
which Audio Device to use. It should show Autodetect by default, change it to
"Network Audio System".
Thanks for the help, you were on the spot. When I changed the audio
device to "Network Audio System" everything started working together!,
the caveat is that there is a noticeable audio latency (very noticeable
:-) while playing music with Amarok. I don't know if this is a bug in my
machine or normal latency in this configuration.
Now aRts seems to run fine, and Amarok plays
music. The problem is that
if I run my QT program (that uses NAS), while Amarok is playing, then I
hear no sound until I close Amarok. Only when Amarok closes I hear the
sound that was probably queued while Amarok was playing. This is already
fine for me on a practical level, although not a perfect soultion in
general.
Thats because aRts autosuspends and releases /dev/dsp if not active.
>for dmix see http://www.alsa-project.org/
>It cannot fix the "different soundservers" problem but it fixes the problem
of
>a sounddevice which can be opened only from one application at a time... So
>it fixes more than your problem as it also allows xmms, zinf, realone and
>many others to access the soundcard while your favourite soundserver(s) is
>running...
>
This is what I was looking for. Looks like a much cleaner solution. I
will investigate some more on it :-).
Thanks for the insightful comments.