On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Tapio Kelloniemi wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:15:49PM +0100, Atte Andr? Jensen wrote:
>> I didn't really learn anything new, except it answered my initial
>> question "can multiple alsa clients at the same time" with the answer "No".
> This is wrong, since applications which use alsa library (libasound)
> can use the same card at the same time if their output device has been
> set to dmix:... Programs which use alsa's kernel api (like sox) or which
Yes, and actually it's not even limited to applications supporting
libasound [1], but also plain OSS apps if you use aoss (alsa-oss package)
wrapper. See for example the following links:
http://www.thepenguin.org.uk/alsa/
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=DmixPlugin (see sections 4-5)
[1] ALSA apps: http://alsa-project.org/applications.php
.. and lots more not yet mentioned on the list.
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