[Alsa-user] Horrible aplay audio quality (when alsaplayer is running)

2004-04-27 Thread Kirk Bauer
12 pcm "hw:0,0" period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 6553 rate 44100 } bindings.0 4 bindings.1 5 } pcm.channel56 { type plug slave.pcm "dmixer56" } -- Kirk Baue

[Alsa-user] Avoiding underruns with 'aplay'?

2004-03-21 Thread Kirk Bauer
I get frequent underruns when playing very short wav files with aplay. Is there a way to avoid this? Would a different input format be better? I tried using the --buffer-time setting up to 10 but it did not seem to help. -- Kirk Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://linux.kayb

[Alsa-user] Playing with both aplay and alsaplayer to the same output channel...

2004-03-21 Thread Kirk Bauer
ngs.1 1 } pcm.channel12 { type plug slave.pcm "dmixer12" } -- Kirk Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://linux.kaybee.org | www.autorpm.org | www.logwatch.org --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Fr

[Alsa-user] Alsaplayer on mulitple devices

2004-03-15 Thread Kirk Bauer
or it to always work. Can anybody provide any insight? -- Kirk Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://linux.kaybee.org | www.autorpm.org | www.logwatch.org --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial p

[Alsa-user] Volumes when mixing two sources

2004-02-25 Thread Kirk Bauer
Is there any way to control the volume of two sources when mixing using 'dmix' apart from having volume control within the source apps themselves? -- Kirk Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://linux.kaybee.org | www.autorpm.org |

Re: [Alsa-user] Command-line alternative to envy24control

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Kirk Bauer wrote: > > > Is there another option besides envy24control that doesn't require X? > > amixer or alsamixer... I'm looking for a way to route my audio input to one of the audio outputs o

[Alsa-user] Command-line alternative to envy24control

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
Is there another option besides envy24control that doesn't require X? -- Kirk Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://linux.kaybee.org | www.autorpm.org | www.logwatch.org --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now

[Alsa-user] One more question: routing input to an output?

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
turn off this routing completely, and then turn it on but route it to a specific output based on other data. So, I might route it to channel12 and then stop it and then later route it to channel34. Is this possible at all? -- Kirk Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://linux.kaybee.org | www.

[Alsa-user] Alsaplayer

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
nly have a developers mailing list. -- Kirk Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://linux.kaybee.org | www.autorpm.org | www.logwatch.org --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with

Re: [Alsa-user] Sending audio to all outputs?

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
; ttable.1.5 1 > } It kind of works... I can play two MP3s at the same time to 'channel12', and I can play one MP3 to 'channelALL' and hear it on all output channels. But, if I play one MP3 on 'channel12' and another on 'channelALL

Re: [Alsa-user] Need better understanding of ALSA output channels

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:12:15 -0700 (MST) > Kirk Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Kirk Bauer wrote: > > > > > > &

Re: [Alsa-user] Spdif in/out on Asus Pundit (p4s8l mobo with sis 7012 device (identified as alc 650 rev2).

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
saw that my card has a spdif output but I don't even undertand what format the output is in and what I could connect it to? I'm used to digital audio outputs either being optical our coaxial, but with only one RCA-type connector (for the coaxial version at least). Just curious... -

Re: [Alsa-user] Sending audio to all outputs?

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
send one audio source (festival speech engine) to all outputs (i.e. channel12, channel34, channel56, and channel78) at the same time as MP3s may be playing separately on each channel... I hope this doesn't put me back into my original high-CPU dema

Re: [Alsa-user] Better way to play MP3s?

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
t has its own mixer instead of previously all outputs sharing a mixer? What does sharing a mixer do for you? And it seems that 'dshare' just allows the two channels to be used as a pair and that is all? I can't play more than one stream to the same output device using dshare, which

Re: [Alsa-user] Need better understanding of ALSA output channels

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Kirk Bauer wrote: > > > What if I want to run the same program through 'aoss' numerous times > > simultaneously with the output going to different output channels? > > Define more pcm.dspX devic

Re: [Alsa-user] Need better understanding of ALSA output channels

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Kirk Bauer wrote: > > > I think it would help if somebody could explain to me (or point me to a > > web resource) about how you select an output in ALSA. I know how to do > > it with 'aplay' s

Re: [Alsa-user] Better way to play MP3s?

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
0 1804 1544 1412 R22.6 0.3 0:42 aplay 13919 root 15 0 1828 1568 1480 R22.2 0.4 0:41 aplay 13927 root 1 -20 4976 4976 4780 S < 5.7 1.2 0:09 mpg123 13934 root 1 -20 4868 4868 4672 S < 5.1 1.2 0:09 mpg123 13918 root 1 -20 5056 5056 4860

[Alsa-user] Need better understanding of ALSA output channels

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
I think it would help if somebody could explain to me (or point me to a web resource) about how you select an output in ALSA. I know how to do it with 'aplay' since it has a special command-line option, but I'm doing speech with the festival speech engine and the output just goes to the first outp

Re: [Alsa-user] Better way to play MP3s?

2004-02-24 Thread Kirk Bauer
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Kirk Bauer wrote: > > > I have a M-Audio Delta 410 and I seem to have it working in 4xstereo > > mode. Now I'm trying to refine my technique, as right now the only way > > I know to send MP3s to a sp

[Alsa-user] Better way to play MP3s?

2004-02-23 Thread Kirk Bauer
ow session). 2) Must be able to play to any of the four stereo outputs of my sound card. A big plus is if the program can control the output volume directly so that I can mix in speech over the music when necessary. Question -- when mpg123 uses esd, is it basically using the OSS compatibi

[Alsa-user] M-Audio Delta 410 (fwd)

2004-02-23 Thread Kirk Bauer
therboard? the msp3410 process takes up CPU time even when no audio is being generated... -- Kirk Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://linux.kaybee.org | www.autorpm.org | www.logwatch.org -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 08:33:12 -0700 (MST) From: Kirk Bauer &

[Alsa-user] M-Audio Delta 410

2004-02-23 Thread Kirk Bauer
use a "plug" device here, darn. period_time 0 period_size 1024 # must be power of 2 buffer_size 6553 # dito. It } } pcm.channel1 { type plug ttable.0.0 1 ttable.1.1 1 slave.pcm "dmixer" } Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- Kirk Bauer <[EMAIL