Re: [Alsa-user] Reading from an output stream

2007-05-19 Thread Benjamin van den Hout
Hi Bill, >>> But I can't work out how to make a stream loop back so that it enters and >>> leaves >>> on the same "side" of ALSA. For example, if I have some software playing >>> music >>> from a file, I can route that down to hardware OK. But I can't seem to >>> route it >>> back to software

Re: [Alsa-user] Reading from an output stream

2007-05-18 Thread Bill Unruh
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Benjamin van den Hout wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I may be completely wrong, but my current understanding of ALSA is that it >> manages streams of data. ALSA seems to sit between software and hardware, >> with >> streams passing through ("down" to hardware if playing sound, "up"

Re: [Alsa-user] Reading from an output stream (2)

2007-05-18 Thread Benjamin van den Hout
Hello again, [Sorry, I missed a bit of sentence] I've read about the snd-aloop driver. I've tried to build it, created a .deb file (I'm running Debian testing) and upgraded my alsa-modules. I can play just fine to the aloop device but recording from it gives me a very nasty kernel OOPS message

Re: [Alsa-user] Reading from an output stream

2007-05-18 Thread Benjamin van den Hout
> > Hi, > > I may be completely wrong, but my current understanding of ALSA is that it > manages streams of data. ALSA seems to sit between software and hardware, > with > streams passing through ("down" to hardware if playing sound, "up" from > hardware > if listening, for example). I can use

[Alsa-user] Reading from an output stream

2007-05-06 Thread andrew cooke
Hi, I may be completely wrong, but my current understanding of ALSA is that it manages streams of data. ALSA seems to sit between software and hardware, with streams passing through ("down" to hardware if playing sound, "up" from hardware if listening, for example). I can use dmix to merge stre