On Sunday 17 December 2006 14:37, Rémi Cardona wrote: > Since I'm not very alsa litterate, on a "typical" system, what kind of > plugins - other than dmix and dsnoop - are used by "typical" > applications (totem, mplayer, amarok, ...)? If a user decides to remove > some plugins, do "typical" applications handle this cleanly or do they > crash and burn? Depends; if you want passthrough (a52 and dts), as well as direct 5.1 PCM output on digital audio connectors you need iec958; ioplug is needed to access almost everything (so I'm tempted to just enable it by default but it might be useful to be left disabled on embedded systems); if the application can't access the output device because of missing plugins, it usually just tells you that it was unable to find the ALSA device.
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