On Thursday 13 July 2006 02:29, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 23:54 +0200, nigel henry wrote: > > This can't be said for the other machine that uses an Ensoniq card > > (ens1371 driver). this is not capable of multiple audio streams. > > It's a case here of one or the other. One hilarious side affect of > > this is listening to a live audio stream from Internet radio, then > > opening Gaim. 2 hrs later you shut down the Internet radio, and then > > receive all the sounds that Gaim has tried to send while you were > > IM'ing. > > How does one determine which cards don't do that before purchase? Not > sharing sound devices been a particular bugbear of mine for quite a > while. I find some applications will jam up until they get to play > their sounds. Hi Tim. I've got a thread running about it on the Alsa mailing list. Apparently if the card is capable of hardware mixing it will be ok for playing back multiple audio streams with no problems. If it has no hardware mixing capabilities, you should still be able to play more than one Alsa app at the same time, for example, Gaim, and Mhwaveedit. If you have apps that use OSS, you can workaround the problem by using the aoss wrapper. I havn't tried that out yet. Check out the Alsa soundcard matrix, for cards capable of hardware mixing, at. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ and for the mailing list, and archives. https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user Nigel. > > -- > (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists.
