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Re: [Alsa-xmms-user] xmms-alsa does not work with esd on
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Aaron M. Ucko |
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Re: [Alsa-xmms-user] xmms-alsa does not work with esd on |
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Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:33:00 -0400 |
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Gaurang Khetan <address@hidden> writes:
> But this is then a step back since that means alsa does not support
> multiple streams mixing: it will only be possible through using esd via
> the OSS (backward) compatibility layer.
I believe recent versions of ALSA support a "dmix" plugin that
performs such mixing relatively transparently. (It just acts like
another ALSA device.) Also, ESD supports ALSA's native interface; I
don't know how all distributions handle that, but on Debian you can
get it to use it by simply installing the "libesd-alsa0" package,
which will automatically drive out libesd0 (which had it use the OSS
interface). ARTS has native ALSA support as well.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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