Clemens, thanks very much for your advice. But it seems that the dshare plugin can only slave to an actual hardware device:
--- $ aplay -Dcenter /tmp/foo.wav ALSA lib pcm_dshare.c:578:(snd_pcm_dshare_open) dshare plugin can be only connected to hw plugin Segmentation fault --- Trying another plugin and starting with your example, I can get the route plugin to route to the proper channels, but of course I lose sharing. :( Here is that .asoundrc: --- pcm.routed_l_r { type route slave.pcm surround51 ttable.0.0 1 ttable.1.1 1 } pcm.routed_c { type route slave.pcm surround51 ttable.0.4 1 } pcm.l_r { type plug slave.pcm routed_l_r } pcm.center { type plug slave.pcm routed_c } --- Do you see any way to add sharing into this config? Will the "share" plugin work? Is aserver deprecated? Thanks again for your help! John Clemens Ladisch said: > John W. Cocula wrote: >> Let me clarify: the real issue is *mixing* normal stereo out the L and R >> channels, while a mono channel is also coming out the center speaker. >> So, >> like dmix, but dmix only works with the first 2 channels? Any solutions >> short of using JACK? >> >> The following fragment works to drive only the center channel, but other >> ALSA players block. >> >> pcm.voice { >> type plug >> slave { >> pcm "surround51" >> } >> ttable.0.4 1 >> } > > You don't need dmix for this, because you don't want to mix several > sources to the same channel. Try something like this (untested): > > pcm_slave.slave51 { > pcm surround51 > channels 6 > rate 48000 # not sure if this is needed > } > > pcm.shared_l_r { > type dshare > slave.pcm slave51 > ipc_key 123456 > bindings { > 0 0 > 1 1 > } > } > > pcm.shared_c { > type dshare > slave.pcm slave51 > ipc_key 123456 > bindings { > 0 4 > } > } > > pcm.l_r { # same as shared_l_r, but for other sample rates etc. > type plug > slave.pcm shared_l_r > } > > pcm.center { > type plug > slave.pcm shared_c > } > > > HTH > Clemens > > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user