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From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=)
Subject: Re: ALSA vs. OSS
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:46:44 +0100
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Brian McGroarty <brian@mcgroarty.net> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:48:54AM +1000, Steve Youngs wrote:
>> * Markus H?stbacka <midian@ihme.org> writes:
>> 
>>   > but ALSA didn't let me to open two sound sources (like XMMS and
>>   > Quake3) at the same time, so I guess it is not really done yet, or
>>   > is it?
>> 
>> Works for me.  Right now I've got 3 instances of mpg123 playing 3
>> different MP3s and XEmacs playing a big .wav file and an audio CD
>> playing.  It's a horrible jumbled mess of noise coming out of my
>> speakers, but it is working.
>
> You probably have a Soundblaster Live or similar, which has multiple
> hardware wave outputs.
>
> OSS has software mixing. ALSA seems designed for people relying on
> esd, aRts or similar multiplexing daemons.

Don't you mean the other way around?

> It's possible to run a program via 'esddsp' or 'artsdsp' to reroute
> /dev/dsp to the daemon, but the overhead isn't so nice, and the output
> quality is often wanting.

True.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
mru@kth.se

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