Christian Brink wrote: > How can you programmatically tell that audio is playing or at least > being sent to the soundcard? > > I've got an application that occasionally fails to pick up a remote > stream, but the process hangs around so I can't tell that it failed just > by checking the process list. I would like to be able to tell if the > application is sending audio or not so I can retry. > > I've checked the archives, googled, and tried cat'ing /dev/audio (which > seems to return data whether or not audio is playing) > Never mind - there was another application holding it "open". Jan - thanks again. -- Christian Brink cbrink@xxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
