[linux-audio-user] ALSA confusion

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:26 +0000, cdr wrote:
> i want to thank whoever explained the plug: vs hw: differences  - ive
> been struggling for weeks trying to get amarok to make sound, only to
> give up and go back to mplayer. it turned out all i needed to do was
> preface hw or dmix with 'plug'...but this only works with gstreamer.
> helix is broken and XINE says it cant find any audio devices, even
> though it has ALSA support compiled in, and aplay -l lists stuff just
> fine (mainly, i think my 'default' doesnt work (perhaps defautling to
> hw, and not plughw?), but i have no idea how to fix that)

Gack, it sounds like not one of these apps supports ALSA correctly.  Are
you saying they all have free-form text entry fields to select the
device?

They should just have a dialog box where you can select hw or plughw or
dmix or whatever and another to select the sound card to use.

Lee