26 Feb
2006
26 Feb
'06
4:49 p.m.
On Sunday 26 February 2006 21:02, linux-audio-user-request(a)music.columbia.edu
wrote:
Thanks. Looks interesting but I am not clear how to use it without oss,
alsaplayer, etc. I just want the hw:0 or other device to be multiclient. In
other words, I can start up kplayer and hydrogen/jack at the same time and
flip out :-). Mostly, something is eating the device but not necessarily
playing and I want something else to play without closing the first
something.
Do I use the number 5 or number 6 .soundrec? I am not playing anything through
oss (except Wine and I have not heard any audio coming out of that yet :-) ).
Does the plugin itself need be installed or is it in alsa (alsa sources with
kernel 2.6.15 or from Debian Sid)?
For example,
if jackd is running, the device is "busy" (jackd itself is,
of course, multiclient). Is it possible to (OR) multiple outputs to an
alsa device? (MIDI can be done using virmidi.)
Yes, the DMIX plugin. It looks like it it turned on by default for
hardware that can't do the mixing itself in ALSA 1.0.9rc2 and later.
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin