From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Dec 17 18: 2:36 2000 From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 18:02:35 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52AA437B400 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 18:02:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24943; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:32:20 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001218030017.A70414@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:32:19 +1030 (CST) Sender: doconnor@gsoft.com.au From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: K.J.Bosschaart@wtb.tue.nl Subject: Re: Multiple invocations of /dev/snd ? Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, Heiko Recktenwald Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 18-Dec-00 Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > for sound output. In xmms I enabled the esd output plugin, while I compiled > a recent port of mpg123 with esound support. As long as your sound application > talks to esd, it can play several sounds at the same time. The only problem with esd is the ludicrous amount of buffering it does :-/ Those dinky visualisations look very odd when they're lagged by ~1 second :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message