[Alsa-user] Re: Sharing soundcard in ALSA

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On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Adam Jones wrote:

> On 07-Apr-02, Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote:
>
> > What's wrong with allowing same soundcard opened by multiple programs
> > and the streams from them mixed (in sw or hw) IN alsa?
>
> The generally-expressed view from the dev team seems to be that mixing
> and resampling are very hard things to get right, and it'd involve
> adding a huge amount of kernel-space code and latency to the sound
> system - and there'd be no way to get around it.
>
> The accepted Right Thing[tm] appears to be to do the mixing with a
> userspace daemon...
>

OK. The problem is that there's no good userspace daemon that works with
most of the current (oss) apps.

Any idea how this is handled in other operating systems.. windows? beos?
macos?


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