Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 04:43:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: catching signals... Message-ID: <199710130243.EAA01670@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <199710121241.WAA01285@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Oct 12, 97 10:11:13 pm"
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According to Mike Smith: [...] > Multiple consumers should talk to the sound hardware via a multiplexer/ > mixer of some sort, eg. nas or something better. There doesn't seem > to be any other sensible way to multiplex multiple sound device > consumers anyway. ie. what's the point of having a stream output > device open by more than one consumer? It seems very useful to me... Like my mp3 player playing music, and my alarm clock, or something like a "windows emulator" (make-annoying-sounds- -as-soon-as-the-user-does-anything-in-an-attempt-to-make-user-go-mad sounds) trying to play a sound at the same time, while my recording program is trying to record something from a mic, or stereo, or something. Not even the "conflicting" use (two outputs) should cause a problem. Then should be automatically mixed in /dev/audio, me thinks. It doesn't seem illogical to me. Specially if you have a nice DSP soundcard that could do it automagically. No? /Mikael
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