On Tuesday 06 February 2007, Lee Revell wrote: > > what happens when your card doesn't have dmix, and gstreamer is already > > playing a stream at 48khz to hw:0,1, and another app wants to play a 44.1 > > khz beep to the same output. does it via some mutex/IPC magic switch over > > to software mixing the two streams, without requiring a resident sound > > daemon? if so, i'd consider that a solved problem that nobody else wanted > > to tackle.. > > There's no such thing as a "card that doesn't have dmix" - dmix is > implemented in software anc can work for any device. > > If ALSA does not enable it for your device by default that should be > filed as a bug. BTW: do you know whether ALSA per default uses the dsnop/dmix/asym trinity? Or does it provide only dmix for the playback direction? Flo -- Palimm Palimm! http://tapas.affenbande.org
