On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > > Also, I run multiple X displays, one for me and one for my father, and > aRts doesn't handle this situation gracefully -- one aRts will block > the other aRts.
Actually: why should the sound daemon be part of the desktop? > > ALSA's dmix plugin can mix multiple sources together (in user space) > but aRts is completely silent when I direct it to a dmix-based ALSA sound > device. Which programs support playing to that directly? AFAIU the main reason esoundd, aRTs and such exist is the lack of multiplexing in the basic sound system support. > > As of today, mixing multiple sound sources on Linux is not trivial and > flaky, involving lots of hacks (aoss, artsdsp, dmix...) and custom > tuning. Why can't it *just work*, as it does on Windows 2000? > > IMO, the best solution would be for ALSA to add a software-mixing > virtual sound card, possibly one which'd involve a user-space mixing > app. But, as Linus would say, "Talk is cheap, show me the code". -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
