On Tuesday 06 February 2007 10:14, david wrote: > > what happens when your card doesn't have dmix AFAIK dmix is the software-mixing mechanism used by ALSA when your card doesn't have hardware mixing (as such isn't hardware dependant :)) - setup by default in modern Linuxes... > the existence of *legal* MP3 codecs for gst from fluendo (with other codecs > to come) should not be overlooked. This interested me... How is it that they have a 'legal' MP3 codec for Linux?- They paid some royalty?- I doubt it'd be as straight-forward as that.... ?? Is it a commercial codec?? :o Curious..... -AL.