[mythtv-users] MythTV frontend/backend same box & OSS Audio

David Engel dlengel at attbi.com
Mon Jul 7 22:54:08 EDT 2003


On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:30:30PM -0500, hayward at slothmud.org wrote:
> Do the ALSA drivers allow multiple processes to open /dev/dsp at the same 
> time?  I know that the SB Live OSS Driver allows this, but not all OSS 
> drivers do.  (I'm using the integrated AUDIO on my motherboard).

Check http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/.  All of the cards with note
(4) support hardware mixing which means multiple process can open
/dev/dsp.

> I'm trying to run mythfrontend & mythbackend on the same server.  When I 
> try to Watch TV from within mythfrontend, I get "Cannot open /dev/dsp".  
> This certainly must be the cause of my problem, right?

Perhaps, perhaps not.  It depends on what capture card you are using
and how it and myth are configured.

David
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