At Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:40:59 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 15:17 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > ALSA library version 1.0.9rc2 and later is using dmix by default. > > > In the case of the sound card supporting hardware mixing, should a > > > demanding media application prefers another device name because > > > "default" is now configured with dmix? > > > > Yes. > > > > Really? I thought the "default" device was supposed to do the right > thing, hardware mixing or not. Grr, I misread the question completely. Sorry. A mediaplayer can/should use "default" PCM (unless wants explicitly 5.1 sounds etc). The default PCM skips dmix is hw-mixing is available. BTW, for the secondary card, you can use like the style like "default:1". This will choose the default PCM of the secondary card. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
