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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:31:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "Richard E. Hawkins" <dochawk@psu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: simple mixing of sound channel?
Message-ID:  <20011210173015.A17865-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <200112102226.fBAMQag46164@fac13.ds.psu.edu>

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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:

>
> Once I have realplayer (or anything else ) going, the next device (such
> as vmware, or a beep from exmh) can't use it.

If the application is capable of using esound (esd), then that's your best
bet for multi-channel sound support.  I pipe XMMS and gnome through it.  I
thing realplayer also supports it.  I haven't tried vmware.

Joe

>
> Is there a simple and automatic way to have everything mix?  I vaguely
> recall something from years ago, and thought I had it on freebsd and
> not just linux.
>
> I'm not worried about manually setting levels, or anything like that.
> If it sounds lousy when two things play at once, that's life.  I'd just
> like to avoid the hassles of figuring out what thinks its still talking
> to the audio.
>
> hawk
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