On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:32:14PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Thomas Ritter [Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:34:48 +0100]: > > On Tuesday 18 November 2003 19:36, David Bishop wrote: > > > Then don't. Go into the Control Center, under Sound & Multimedia, select > > > Sound Server. Uncheck 'Start at login', and then use non-kde multimedia > > > ... and don't forget to set arts to kill itself after 1 second or so before > > you disable it, because whenever you start one of the crappy (because arts > > using) KDE media programs, it will start arts. I had even thought of > > deleting > > the arts binary and symlinking it to /bin/false ;) > > Perhaps you should consider running artsd outputting to the *null* device. > That way all KDE applications are happy 'cause arts is running and > non-kde apps can use the driver themselves. > > By the way, by not using arts, you also loose the possibility of having > separate apps playing simultaneously, don't you? (Please correct me if > I'm wrong; I'd be glad to know if this can be done without > artsd/esd/similar.)
If you have a good sound card you can output multiple simultaneously, or if you can manage to convince upstream alsa to fix the alsa-lib to work right with their dmix plugin it will even work for cheap sound cards. Otherwise you have to use a daemon such as artsd/esd/etc. BTW - as far as functionality is concerned arts is more roughly equal to gstreamer than to esd. Chris
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