>Od: Rob Andrews [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] >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. dmix is not used on emu10k1 > >Plus if dmix was pushing through a channel that had an EAX filter on it >would apply it to all audio output. > There is no EAX on linux and emu10k1. Aktivujte si neobmedzenu mailovu schranku na www.pobox.sk! -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
