On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:20:24 +0200, Peter Backlund wrote: > Any program that supports ALSA output also supports DMIX. In the > attached setup, the default device is set to DMIX. But as you said, > legacy applications only supporting OSS won't be able to use DMIX. You can use the aoss wrapper to force OSS apps to go via alsalib, iirc. This uses LD_PRELOAD so it has to be done on a case by case basis. In theory it could be applied to all apps but I suspect it works by overriding open() and similar calls, so it'd have to be very carefully tested and the common case would have to be high performance. For the non-networked case, that would make things Just Work for everyone, as far as I can see. For the networked case, well, this is still an open question. I quite like the idea of an ALSA plugin that simply spits the audio out into a userspace forwarder daemon which does the mixing itself before sending the mixed stream to the remote machine. That way there is no API confusion: alsalib is *the* sound API for all but pro audio apps that need to use JACK anyway. Such a plugin does not yet exist, AFAIK. thanks -mike
