On 14-Dec-2005 12:10.39 (GMT), Dan Williams wrote: > > dmix is an alsa helper for devices that don't support hardware mixing or > > have fixed-frequency codecs (e.g. the 48000Hz fixed-frequency > > Intel/VIA/SIS integrated audio devices). It downmixes and frequency > > scales as required. > This is what all the other OSs that actually have sound device > arbitration do AFAIK. On Mac OS X, you _don't_ touch the hardware, you > don't open /dev/dsp, period. You talk to CoreAudio (or Carbon's > SoundManager), which handles mixing and resampling if required, and > passes all audio to the device. Which is what we should be doing in > Linux too. The audio situation without something like dmix arbitration > is just horrific. But does dmix downmix when using a card that does support hardware mixing, e.g. emu10k1? In that case it would just be burning cycles unnecessarily. Plus if dmix was pushing through a channel that had an EAX filter on it would apply it to all audio output. -- rob andrews rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
