On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 21:40 +0530, Damodharan R wrote: > > > On 29/03/06, Christoph Burger-Scheidlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 06:04, Damodharan R wrote: > > Now I am able to play sound in totem. But when I open > realplayer it says > > device is used by another application. How to share the > soundcard with more > > than one program? > > ALSA newer than 1.0.9 enables software mixing (=sharing) by > default, so you > don't need to configure anything. RealPlayer however uses OSS. > To get it to > play along, try aoss realplay. > > Thanks for the info. aoss realplater worked fine. But I remember > enablein oss support (--with-oss=yes) when compiling alsa-driver. Will > it not take care of OSS applications.
No, it won't - the in-kernel OSS emulation cannot support software mixing as mixing is implemented in userspace. You must use aoss. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
