Re: [Alsa-user] write() blocking for short sound streams

2003-10-15 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Fredrik Tolf wrote: Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Use aplay something.wav, or aplay -Dplughw:X,Y something.wav, I did that, and to my surprise it yielded the same results, ie. multiple aplay processes playing short streams blocked each other while long streams wouldn't affect

Re: [Alsa-user] write() blocking for short sound streams

2003-10-15 Thread Fredrik Tolf
Clemens Ladisch writes: Fredrik Tolf wrote: Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Use aplay something.wav, or aplay -Dplughw:X,Y something.wav, I did that, and to my surprise it yielded the same results, ie. multiple aplay processes playing short streams blocked each

Re: [Alsa-user] write() blocking for short sound streams

2003-10-15 Thread Fredrik Tolf
I'm sorry about the previous mail. I happened to press the wrong button and sent it prematurely. Anyway, I'll restart from the top: Clemens Ladisch writes: Fredrik Tolf wrote: Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Use aplay something.wav, or aplay -Dplughw:X,Y something.wav, I

Re: [Alsa-user] write() blocking for short sound streams

2003-09-20 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Fredrik Tolf wrote: The most annoying thing is that sounds seem to be serialized, ie. if one process plays something through the OSS DSP device, any other process that also tries to play through the OSS DSP device blocks until the first process is done. An strace revealed that it is the

[Alsa-user] write() blocking for short sound streams

2003-09-18 Thread Fredrik Tolf
Hello, I have recently started to migrate to Linux 2.6, and since ALSA came with it, I though that I might just as well give it a try, since I've heard so many great things about it. However, my first experiences have not been that positive. I'm guessing that most things are merely configuration