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On Sunday 17 December 2006 14:37, Rémi Cardona wrote: |
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> Since I'm not very alsa litterate, on a "typical" system, what kind of |
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> plugins - other than dmix and dsnoop - are used by "typical" |
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> applications (totem, mplayer, amarok, ...)? If a user decides to remove |
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> some plugins, do "typical" applications handle this cleanly or do they |
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> crash and burn? |
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Depends; if you want passthrough (a52 and dts), as well as direct 5.1 PCM |
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output on digital audio connectors you need iec958; ioplug is needed to |
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access almost everything (so I'm tempted to just enable it by default but it |
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might be useful to be left disabled on embedded systems); if the application |
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can't access the output device because of missing plugins, it usually just |
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tells you that it was unable to find the ALSA device. |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ |
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