xmms, kaffeine and mplayer won't share

skubeedooo · 01-07-2005, 12:22 PM

xmms, kaffeine and mplayer are all setup to use alsa, but for some reason do not allow the sharing of the sound card. In Control Centre->Sound System->Test Sound does share with noatun and the terminal system bell, but not with x,k or m.

I am running fedora 3 and using kde 3.2. I have switching everything to arts and oss but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

James

skubeedooo · 01-07-2005, 12:28 PM

sorry, i should have said "...do not allow the sharing of the sound card with other apps or each other"

ValidiusMaximus · 01-07-2005, 02:13 PM

Because of the nature of ALSA you cannot have apps simoultaniously using the card. There is a way to have a special mixing program..... not sure though.

reddazz · 01-07-2005, 02:54 PM

I don't agree, alsa enables you to play sound from various sources and share the sound card at the same time. I have just tested this by playing an audio file with xmms and playing a video at the same time using xine and I can hear sound from both. I am using kernel 2.6.x with alsa compiled into the kernel.