I also want to mention that anyone wishing to stay on the forefront of Linux multimedia needs to investigate the GStreamer project at http://www.gstreamer.net/
-jwb On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > BTW, I don't know much about ALSA, but it is not possible to have alsa > > _and_ other stuff at the same time (I tried so I could dabble with it > > and see what it is about). > > This is not true. ALSA provides OSS emulation. All of your ALSA and OSS > applications can use the sound device at the same time. Many applications > (ESD, XMMS, vlc, Xine, arts) can be configured to use either the > (superior) ALSA interface or the old OSS interface. > > > A nice feature of esd, though I haven't really tried it yet, is the > > ability to play sound remotely. This would be cool to have the laptop > > on the LAN with real speakers plugged in but playing the mp3s from my > > workstation. > > This is a nice feature! Again I wish to repeat that ESD works fine with > ALSA, and ALSA allows as many applications as you want to use the sound > device. > > -jwb > > >
