Re: Number of sound channels?

Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:16:56 +0100

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John Newman wrote:
>
> This is kind of an unrelated question. Has anyone ever
> implemented software mixing such that /dev/dsp can be opened
> for output multiple times? Or is that functionality going
> to remain strictly the domain of esd?

Software mixing should remain in the user space, as there you
can easily use MMX, KNI, whatever to speed up sample rate
conversion, whereas in kernel this is difficult.

Tom

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