Re: [Jack-Devel] How to get mplayer and firefox/flash to play

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 06:45:04PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Fons Adriaensen <[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> > The only thing that ALSA should have provided natively is
> > multi-client access.
> 
> that implies mixing, in either user space or the kernel.
> 
> its prohibited in the kernel since it represents policy, not
> mechanism. that leaves user-space, where dmix and the other ALSA
> "plugin" method also work but not as reliably or usefully as JACK or
> PulseAudio.

If you just add the outputs from all client without any scaling
then there is no 'policy' involved, as the result that each
client gets does not depend on the presence of any other as long
as the sum doesn't exceed the physical limits. If it does, that
is the user's problem. Just as it is when e.g. windows from two
or more apps overlap on the screen. Or when two or more apps are
printing on the same xterm.

Ciao,

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FA

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