having 2 application using sound at the same time

shadout · 02-08-2006, 02:06 AM

Hi everybody,

I try to be able to play a movie with mplayer while amarok or xmms is on, without to have to quit the mp3 player.

I've bee able to do that with artsd, but it crashes all the time so it's not a very good solution. I've read somewhere that this can be done trough alsa with a plugin called dmix. But I can't figure how ?

I've a soundblaster live 24bit and suse10.

Thank you, this would be very helpful.

Shadout

halvy · 02-08-2006, 08:33 PM

try setting the sound to different servers, ie. keep mplayer on oss, put xmms on arts, amorok on alsa

or put as many on one as you can until you figure out which one is best.

the alternatives are probably compile everything connected with sound.

i never heard of dmix, is it a new server for sound?

reddazz · 02-08-2006, 08:40 PM

Alsa works fine for me on various distros. Dmix is enabled by default in recent versions of alsa.

shadout · 02-09-2006, 12:48 AM

Hi,

Do you know if dmix works with some specific soundcards ?

I'll allready have the last version of alsa. Did it work with the rpm provided by suse, or did you recompile alsa ?

Thanks

reddazz · 02-09-2006, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by shadout

Hi,

Do you know if dmix works with some specific soundcards ?

I'll allready have the last version of alsa. Did it work with the rpm provided by suse, or did you recompile alsa ?

Thanks

It just works out of the box. I have 3 installations of Suse, one using an SB Live Card, one with a SIS 7012 and another with some intel card (laptop) and I can play media from various sources. I tend to install only alsa and the xine engine for amarok and kaffeine.

shadout · 02-09-2006, 12:56 AM

just to be sure I'm not doing this wrong.

You just launch amarok with xine-engine using alsa.

And then mplayer -ao alsa XXXX.avi.

Right ?

Thanks again