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On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:02:39 -0400 |
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Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Am Montag 19 September 2011, 12:37:16 schrieb Michael Mol: |
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> >> I recall reading about dmix in LinuxJournal years ago, but I don't |
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> >> think I ever got around to setting it up; |
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> > you don't set it up. It just works. If your sound card does not do |
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> > hardware mixing (onboard sound doesn't) you are using dmix. |
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> Ah. As I said, I hadn't poked or researched dmix since I read about it |
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> in LinuxJournal. Pretty sure that particular issue came out over ten |
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> years ago. |
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> That doesn't quite jive with my experience with apps some apps |
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> managing to take exclusive control over sound devices. In particular, |
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> if, e.g. Flash were run under Firefox before WINE or PulseAudio, then |
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> the latter two didn't get to play.* |
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Flash isn't a good example though. It just assumes that it is the most |
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important (only?) thing in the universe, and tries to take over the |
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hardware for itself. If I read recent blogs correctly, even Windows |
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users suffer from the same thing with Flash. |
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I think the presumption in this thread in that sound apps make *some* |
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attempt to play nicely - Flash doesn't fit that category. The only |
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category it fits is "useless crap that should either be deleted or only |
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used when absolutely necessary" |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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