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Originally posted by e8hffff View PostI find that hard to believe. Do a test now with separate applications using ALSA...With no OpenAL/PulseAudio/OSS installed!
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Originally posted by LightBit View PostI was surprised too. Video on youtube and mplayer music both are playing at the same time and I hear them both. No OpenAL/PulseAudio/OSS installed.
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Originally posted by e8hffff View PostWell what's the use of that if sound dies and you can't control which one is active, easily. You are simply saying what we said about not being able to play more than one. Play does mean hearing, when related to sound.
I don't want to get into a PA-ALSA flame war, I'm just saying if you like want to listen to music playing via mplayer while playing your fav FPS all at the same time you can do that and hear everything with ALSA. No magic needed. No more, no less.
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Originally posted by e8hffff View PostYou maybe experiencing the effect of a single OS API locked onto a single ALSA hardware binding, playing your sound for your apps.
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Originally posted by ChrisXY View PostFYI: Alsa has been using dmix per default for some years now. It will only not work if the only application using alsa is using the hardware directly - which is quite rare nowadays - and then you try to start another sound output (AND if you don't have hardware mixing).
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Originally posted by ChrisXY View PostFYI: Alsa has been using dmix per default for some years now. It will only not work if the only application using alsa is using the hardware directly - which is quite rare nowadays - and then you try to start another sound output (AND if you don't have hardware mixing).
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Originally posted by e8hffff View PostI find that hard to believe. Do a test now with separate applications using ALSA...With no OpenAL/PulseAudio/OSS installed!
I've been doing that for almost a decade. Flash, amarok, mplayer, all playing on top of each other, with different users even.
Some ALSA drivers are buggy, and need to be fixed, absolutely. It is a good solution for most desktop users, for everyone else, there is JACK. If PA ever does anything useful for me, and convinces me that it's a mature, stable technology, I'll consider switching, no problems. But spreading FUD about Linux sound is not needed. It works just fine.
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