Thomas Zimmerman wrote:
>
> Jeff McBride wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Are there any good ways to play several audio sources simultaneously? If
> > an application wants to be playing say, several wave files overtop of each
> > other, does it have to mix them itself and then play one stream. Or are
> > there other drives, or possibly a daemon of some kind to do it?
> >
> > And how about multiple applications that are unaware of each other playing
> > at the same time?
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> >
> > Jeff
>
> EsounD deamon is what you are looking for. However, the apps need to
> know to use ESD to play...
Or, as long as the application doesn't memory map the
sound card DMA buffers (like quake), you can run:
esddsp program args
to reroute audio device calls to the esd server. For example:
esddsp realplay somefile.rm
esddsp vmware winamp.exe somefile.mp3
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