On 17-03-08 09:05, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:18:15 +0100, > Rene Herman wrote: >> Don't do it there. Use /etc/asound.conf or $HOME/.asoundrc ... > > Or /etc/asound.conf. It's the additional place for the system-wide > definitions. That's what I said. What happened? Alexander also completely missed that... >> Exactly why you need that slave definition I'm not sure either, but it seems >> you do. > > The file plugin requires the slave for its configuration and as the > timing source. Using "null" is just to accept any config and feed the > data as fast as possible. If you need to save the data as if it's > being played, use the kernel dummy driver as the slave. I see, thanks. >> Also note that /tmp/pcm.out will be headerless PCM and is recreated >> for individual opens. I don't believe there's an append mode or anything >> (and you'd need to make sure that everyone plays the same format) so not >> toot sure if this is what you need to have a catch all audio-sink... > > Recently I added a new option "truncate" to file plugin. As default, > it's set to true (for compatibility reason), and the plugin overwrite > the existing file if reopened. When it's set to false, a new file is > created with a different suffix (up to 1000 files) at each time. That sounds useful... Rene. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
