[mythtv-users] Squeezesoft prevents audio in .24

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 15:18 +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> I can't see how this ever worked before... ALSA requires exclusive
> access to the hardware, if it's opened by one application, it can't be
> used by another ; that's why you have sound server like pulse audio.

Some audio hardware provides hardware mixing and when that isn't
available dmix software mixing is enabled automatically for analog
outputs unless the distro has specifically disabled it in favor
of using the pulseaudio server for audio mixing.

-- Daniel