Hi,

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:30:40PM +0200, David Scrève wrote:
> 
> > 
> > >   If I open "plughw:0,0,0", "plughw:0,0,1" for my via 
> > 686b, will it 
> > > continue to work on other soundcard in the same way (with multiple 
> > > stream with different format) ?
> > 
> > Many other cards don't have multiple streams, so it won't work.
> > 
> > 
> > The "correct" way to select an ALSA device is to let the user 
> > specify a device name (which is defined in his .asoundrc), or 
> > to use "default".
> > 
>       Okay...I think I will cancel using ALSA : It's too hardware
> dependant. I though
> it was containing an abstraction layer like CoreAudio and DirectSound do.

Are you trying to program ALSA?  You may have an easier time with a
library like SDL or OpenAL.

If you are speaking purely about the multiple streams issue, the dmix
plugin works fine for programs that support ALSA.

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253


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