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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Robert J. McKay wrote:

> 
> I'm reading through the documentation, and I'm still not 100% sure if this
> is even supported:
> 
> Basically I want to be able to play multiple things at once.. is this your
> "Virtual PCM device" thing? Is it included in the 0.2.0-pre10p1 version of
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Where is this information? I didn't remember that I wrote this to some
file.

> your driver? I can't seem to figure out how it works. Oh.. and I know you
> don't maintain the mpg123 port for alsa (maybe someone could pass this
> along..), but it's miss-documented.
> 
> The format of the mpg123 command is as follows:
> 
> mpg123 -a 1:0 <filename> <--- this is what actually works.
>        ^^
> not 
> 
> mpg123 -o 1:0 <filename>  <--- this is what it says in comments in the patch.
>        ^^
> which is what it says in the documentation. Just an a instead of an o.

OK. Fixed in patch...

> Anyhow.. at the moment I only seem to have one PCM device, and I can only
> write to it from one application at a time. How can I get these "virtual
> pcm" devices that are spoken of in the documentation?

Again, where? This feature will be probably implemented only in user
space only, look to EsounD or other network audio servers.

							Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
Branisovska 31, C. Budejovice, CZ-370 05 Czech Republic


