| From: | Anders Bolager |
| Date: | 27 Aug 2000 at 02:27:50 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Ami Sound System ? |
On 23-Aug-00, Rudi Chiarito wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:33:31PM +0300, Sinan Gurkan wrote:
>> Will it be a Linux API (ALSA, Esound, e.t.c) port or an AHI port?
>
> If you take a look at them, they all miss something - at the moment.
>
> ALSA, AFAIK, has no positional sound and doesn't allow multiple programs
> to access /dev/dsp at the same time - I have an i810-based system, ALSA
> is the most reliable way to get sound on it, but I can't play an MP3 and
> a sample file at the same time.
I think my old Tident based soundcard could do this fine under ALSA, but I
haven't used it in a while so I may remember wrong. My new C-Media based
card has problems in this regard, but it seems to have the same problems
under Windows.
Regards,
Anders
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