On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Nicolas DEVERGE wrote: > > Hi, > I have installed the latest Alsa drivers on my linux distribution. > I have a big problem : I can not play simultaneously several soundfiles on > the same sound card (with have 10 output channels). I use aplay for playing > on specific channel but I can not start two instances of aplay in the same > time, the second wait for the end of the first for starting. > My question is : is aserver a tool for playing simultaneously sound files on > the same device, like esound or arts ? if so, where can I fond some
Yes and no. We're missing the mix plugin, but the share plugin allows to merge more streams into one device, but the channels are not mixed. Try this configuration: server.local { host localhost socket /tmp/alsa } pcm.shared_left { type share slave.pcm "plughw:0,0,0" bindings { 0 0 } } pcm.shared_right { type share slave.pcm "plughw:0,0,0" bindings { 0 1 } } pcm.remote_left { type shm server local pcm "plug:shared_left" } pcm.remote_right { type shm server local pcm "plug:shared_right" } Run aserver and type: aplay -D remote_left <a.wav> aplay -D remote_right <b.wav> You should hear simultaneously two wav files. The first from left and the second from right speaker. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com ALSA Project http://www.alsa-project.org _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel