[linux-audio-user] Re: Feasibility of Crestron like Linux - Linux-audio-user

4 Jan 2005

...
 > Yep. I use 2 USB soundcards to give me 6 stereo
channels. I can play
> 6 different mp3 sources to 6 rooms. 
...
 You could also do this with an emu10k1 or emu10k2 based
card, anything
that has 6 channels of output (like the 5.1, or anything with the
LiveDrive, which gives a headphone out).  These can be used as 6
independent mono channels, or 3 stereo streams.  Plus this card
resamples in hardware which makes things a lot easier. 
I have 6 stereo outputs so it would take 2 emu10k cards. I started
development with one such card driving 3 rooms but had to move to USB to free
PCI slots for disk controllers.

Yeah, I wish I had hardware resample....
Without the USB 48Khz limitation I wouldn't even need to resample :-(
I have a feeling that 5% cpu load per room is going come back and haunt
me...

I haven't tried running the usb cards at 44.1 for several kernel
iterations, maybe it works now.