From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 10 14:34:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0AB37B417 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:34:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.144]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA21166; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:34:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA02022; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:34:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA02018; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:34:23 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac4.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:34:23 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: "Richard E. Hawkins" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: simple mixing of sound channel? In-Reply-To: <200112102226.fBAMQag46164@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > Once I have realplayer (or anything else ) going, the next device (such > as vmware, or a beep from exmh) can't use it. > > Is there a simple and automatic way to have everything mix? I vaguely > recall something from years ago, and thought I had it on freebsd and > not just linux. Not really, it depends a lot on your soundcard. Certain drivers can support several playback channels. I thought a while back I heard about some work going on to make this possible on any soundcard through some kernel level sound mixing (this is possible today on FreeBSD using the commercial OSS drivers, but I'd rather wait for FreeBSD's drivers to support this) in FreeBSD but I'm not sure what's going on with it. > > I'm not worried about manually setting levels, or anything like that. > If it sounds lousy when two things play at once, that's life. I'd just > like to avoid the hassles of figuring out what thinks its still talking > to the audio. > Right now your only options to do this are use esd or use arts (arts is part of KDE2, and esd is usually use by gnome) and then use esd and gnome enabled programs. Almost everything supports esd, so you shouldn't have any trouble finding them.. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message