On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mark Swanson wrote:
> On March 1, 2003 04:31 am, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > I have added some info to the asoundrc docs on using the new dmix plugin
> >
> > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/asoundrc.php3?company=Generic&;
> >card=Generic&chip=Generic&module=Generic#softmix
> >
> > It allows software mixing of multiple streams at one time in a similar
> > way to ESD,ARTS,JACK.
>
> This sounds like very good news!
>
> To me, this sounds like the perfect way to solve the current esd/arts
> nightmare. Are there any latency or CPU gotchas compared to esd/arts?
The "mixing" code for one task takes around 1% of CPU time for the 48kHz
stream on 850Mhz PIII CPU. Latency is same as for direct exlusive
playback.
Jaroslav
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Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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