From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Dec 20 7:55:51 2000 From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 07:55:49 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3460E37B400 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:55:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p216.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.216]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA110830; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 16:53:06 +0100 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00336; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:12:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:12:08 +0100 (CET) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Hans Lambermont , Frank van Beek , Frank van Beek , Janco Verduin , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple invocations of /dev/snd ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Aiee, that makes it unuseable for games too. There should be a control > > Yep.. > > > to limit the buffering. Perhaps there already is (I don't know the esd Buffering ? Dont know if it is the same problem but with DAP, exact editing of files is impossible. You dont hear what you get. Newpcm on 4.0 R and Yamaha. > > api). Btw, are there esd alternatives ? And if so, is one clearly > > becoming the de-facto standard, or are they even ? > > Well the 'best' alternative would be to have the kernel mix the audio for you :) > > I think the KDE folks have a similar daemon but I'm not sure. Well, I understood that "multiple instances" might work with a daemon. Like multiple instances of mices work with moused. And that such a beast doesnt exist, except in "fancy desktop environements". A standard might come from the command line world. Simplicity. > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum It is tricky ;-) H. -- http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message