On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Øyvind Stegard wrote: > Does ALSA (the library or the kernel drivers) support software mixing of > several PCM streams in the _same_sense_ as aRTSd or esound(which sucks, > btw), on any kind of soundcard ? If so, are there some simple guidelines
Not yet. This issue has been discussed many, many times on this list, the architecture is there, but an "end-user" implementation is missing. There's already aserver in the ALSA CVS (as has been for a long time), but it's not easy to setup (well, there are just no instructions on how to do it), and I'm not sure whether it's ready for regular use. I guess the difficult thing is making the software mixing layer easy to setup and use. To achieve this, I think the plugin layer would have to have the logic to start the aserver (or some such) if a second plugin instance is started. This, while easy to use, is not trivial to implement. One thing to note is that some soundcards support hardware mixing, and this _is_ supported by ALSA. -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux! ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: AMD - Your access to the experts on Hammer Technology! Open Source & Linux Developers, register now for the AMD Developer Symposium. Code: EX8664 http://www.developwithamd.com/developerlab _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
