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Re: alsa software mixing



Is this not a case of hardware mixing?  ymfpci has a hardware mixer, and
if alsa supports that, then audio streams should be mixed by the sound
hardware itself.

Of course, I could be entirely wrong.  I don't know much about how
hardware/software mixers interact, relate, or collide.  I really don't
know what I'm talking about.  8^)

noah

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:34:49PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> I was astounded today when my laptop was able to play a mp3 while I was
> running a game with sound effects. I don't use esound; I do use alsa
> with the snd-card-ymfpci module. 
> 
> I didn't realize alsa did software mixing. This rules! Am I just
> particularly lucky about the sound card in my laptop[1], or is this a
> standard alsa feature for many cards?
> 

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