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From: Magnus Norddahl <mbn@dark.x.dtu.dk>
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Subject: Re: Virtual array of audio devices. Filters etc. ?
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Quoting Jaroslav Kysela (perex@jcu.cz):

> We have big discussion about this, but seems that user space is more
> reasonable for these things:
> 
> PCM stream ---> Audio Server -> conversion -> filters -\
> PCM stream ---> Audio Server -> conversion -> filters ---> Kernel driver
> PCM stream ---> Audio Server -> conversion -> filters -/
> 
> Kernel driver = one exclusive PCM device
> 
> EsounD is way for example...
> 
> Any other ideas? Comments?

I personally dislike the sound server daemon idea (eg. esound). This
requires recompilation of all the different sound applications I use. An
example on this is x11amp. I do not have the sourcecode to this application,
and therefore cannot recompile it to use esound.

Alsa would become really really cool, if several applications could open
/dev/dsp at once.

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