[mythtv-users] [OT] Play MP3s and watching TV a the same time ??

[David Engel]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:46:35AM -0500, Seth Lake wrote:
> listen to football games?  Not in my family.  It would be sweet to
> be able to watch the TV and listen to XMMS at the same time, but for
> some reason linux doesn't seem to be able to play more than one
> audio stream (a serious deficiencey when compared to M$) even with
> ALSA.  anything i can do to get more than 1 stream out of my audio
> card?

ALSA allows multiple opens if the hardware supports mixing.  Look for
a "(4)" in the notes column at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/.

David
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David Engel
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