Again thanks you for your answer. You have been of great help. Using "plughw" instead of "default" seems to do the trick. I have some more questions: Is there a way to find out which soundcards support hardware mixing (and have support for it implemented in their corresponding ALSA drivers)? Is it safe to assume that ALSA will not use dmix if the sound card (and the ALSA driver for it) supports hardware mixing? Best regards, Florian Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Florian Winter wrote: > >> - What is the dmix plugin and what are the benefits of using it? >> - Is it possible to disable the dmix plugin? >> - What consequences does disabling the dmix plugin have? What essential >> features of ALSA will be missing without it? >> > > The dmix plugin allows multiple applications to play to one sound device > by mixing multiple streams together. > > The "default" device automatically uses dmix when the sound card does > not have hardware mixing; to disable this, configure your applications > to use device name "plughw" instead of "default". > > > Regards, > Clemens > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
