On 12-06-08 06:53, Pete Black wrote: > Its very simple. > > Most sound devices support a number of sample rates. Common ones > include 16 bit @ 44.1khz, 16-bit @ 48khz, 24-bit @ 96 khz etc. > > Only one application has exclusive control over the sound hardware at > any time. > > Whatever rate that application opens the soundcard at, is the rate > that is used to send data to the card. > > If the application with exclusive control over the sound hardware is > a mixer-type daemon (e.g. dmix, esd, artsd, etc.) then all audio > streams are converted by this application and sent to the sound card > using the sample rate it opened the hardware with. > > Does that make sense? dmix isn't an application (it just mixes behind the scenes) but basically, yes, that is how things work. And given that dmix is default these days (if the card doesn't support hardware mixing that is) Sergei's notion of how things might work is how things _do_ work in practice right now for anyone who doesn't care enough about his audio to disable dmix. The first A in ALSA stands for "advanced" though and you can bet your testicles that many "advanced" users do not look favourably upon resampling and dmix... Rene. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
