Ok. But How to make mplayer work with soundserver? On Friday 28 June 2002 08:29 pm, Damian G wrote: > > > launch it by calling old plain xmms. > > > > What I meant is otherway. How to make mplayer work with soundserver? > > What are the benefits of sound server? > > What are the disadvantages by disabling it? > > well, the soundserver is basically a way to provide mixing > between several applications' sound. > > for example, if you open Xmms and try to play an MP3 file > and at the same time open MPlayer and try to play a movie, > you will not be able to hear one of the two things. one > of them will give you the "soundcard busy" while the other > plays it's sound. > > soundserver ( aRTS ) provides a way to listen several audio > outputs at the same time by mixing. that is, the soundserver > application ( daemon? ) connects itself exclusively to your > soundcard and opens up a server port. any app that wants > to use the soundcard must be aware of this server, and connect > to it instead of trying to play directly. this way aRTS gets > the audio output from any app, mixes them all up and plays > them, avoiding the "soundcard busy" problem. > > disabling aRTS means you cannot play MP3 files and movie files > at the same time and hear them both, but it also means much less > configuration trouble, at least it did for me. > > ( anyway all soundcards provide different channels, one for > PCM, other for audio CD, other for MIDI, so depending on the > kind of sound you are trying to play, you are able to play more > than one sound at the same time, for example, you will still > be able to watch a movie and at the same time play an audio CD.. > just not two of the same kind at the same time. ) > > > Damian
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