On 10/31/07, Samuel Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using obsd as my primary desktop for a while now and i have a > question about the sound system , is there a way to play > two sounds at the same time ? Example watching youtube videos with opera and > playing some music in the background with mpd or xmms . > thank you for your time ; )
Unix has always been kind of weak in this area. You need a mixer of some sort to do this. Not /dev/mixer, which controls audio volumes for the different hardware devices, but a software mixer. You'll probably want http://ports.openbsd.nu/audio/esound. There's something called Pulse which is intended as a drop in (but superior) replacement for esound, and someone () ported it to OpenBSD, but it's not in the tree yet. Reading http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup might be enlightening; it describes how to configure each program you want to use to use pulse. Looking around some more, here's something like how you'd have to configure mpd to use esound: audio_output { type "ao" driver "esd" options "host=jurp5-desktop:16001" name "esd" } Yes, you need to have each program direct it's output to the mixer, there's no way (as far as I know) to sneakily make /dev/audio be a software mixer. I don't know if the reason there's no /dev/audio_mix is technical, or if it's just that no one's done the work, or if it's just a tradition now. -Nick
