You can play multiple streams with oss. On my ens1370 soundcard with oss, I could play music form the internet and run flite at the same time. Whereas this is not possable using my ens 1371 soundcard with alsa. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke@xxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Alsa question > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:37:14AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > alsa only emmulates oss. > > Since oss only supports one sound source at a time, alsa can't fix that > > behavior by emmulating what oss does and how it behaves. > > I don't think so. On soundcards able to play multiple streams at once, it's > possible to open /dev/dsp multiple times even with OSS. So if the emulation is > done correctly, and it operates over dmix, it should be possible to open > /dev/dsp by more applications. > > Actually I've read in some dmix how-to this is supposed to work. > > But I'm also a little puzzled with the magic of /etc/asound.conf and with what > it's supposed to contain to make dmix and oss emulation work (and the last step, > make them work together). > > I would recommend asking on alsa-users at alsa-project.org. > > With regards, > Hynek Hanke > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
