Re: ALSA: XMMS works after alsaconf - after reboot XMMS hangs again
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:23:37 +0100, Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:10:12 +0100, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> > Is there any drawback of using eSound instead of ALSA ?
> > Or does eSound utilize ALSA ?
>
> esd uses ALSA. The whole purpose of esd is to allow multiple processes to
> output sound at the same time. The processes send their data streams to
> esd which can accept multiple connections; esd mixes the streams and sends
> the result to the device.
Cool! Thanks a lot for the explanation!
Best regards,
Hannes.
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