On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:36 AM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com<fatkasuvayu%2bli...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> 2009/5/30 Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au>: > > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 01:29 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > >> Most of the modern Intel HDA cards _are_ capable of mixing streams. I > >> have owned one such card since 2007. Also most of the hi-end boards > >> today support multiple streams. However I am not sure whether > >> pulseaudio can stream two different streams to these sound cards and > >> let it playback in two different devices. A very common situation > >> would be something like a skype call on a headphone without > >> interrupting music playback on external speakers. > > > > You could only do that if you have two *separate* *output* hardware > > circuits. Lots of cards only have one output system. They might give > > you separate volume controls for speakers or headphones, but both > > control the same thing (one output source), they just switch between > > which control to use depending on whether you've plugged a headphone, in > > or not. Which makes more sense than at first seems. > > > > e.g. My laptop has silly little speakers that always need full volume, > > my headphones work normally. It's handy to set the level for each > > appropriately, and not have to move the volume up and down between them, > > just because I've plugged a lead in. > > > > I first used this on an Intel 975XBX2 workstation board I bought in > 2007. It _is_ capable of multi-streaming, I could set up my drivers to > present to the apps as two different output devices. So I had skype > configured to use the front jacks and I used the rear jacks to stream > to the line-in of my home entertainment system. > > How did you do that? I am using the same card right now and I did not know it was able of doing that. I know it has three different circuits for input, but you are saying it can do the same for output... -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
-- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines