RE: Kernel OSS vs ALSA
Michael Cummins (mjcumm@isa.mim.com.au)
Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:25:06 +1000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fuzzy Fox [mailto:fox@foxtaur.com]
> Sent: Friday, 15 October 1999 14:13
> To: Michael Cummins
> Subject: Re: Kernel OSS vs ALSA
>
>
> Michael Cummins <mjcumm@isa.mim.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > What the heck would multiple users on a single machine be all
> > directing data to a sound card at the same time for?
>
> That's an unlikely scenario. But what about multiple *processes*
> directing sound to the card at the same time?
>
> Suppose I'm playing an MP3, but my ICQ client wants to beep
> me to let me
> know that someone is trying to page me? I think I'd like the beep to
> either interrupt the sound for a moment, or mix in with it. Either
> would get my attention.
Yea O.K. Maybe mix the two. But then you have to have the volume of the
beep loud enough to go over top of the MP3.
Michael Cummins
>
> But they are two unrelated programs. They wouldn't
> necessarily know (or
> what to know) about each other.
>
> --
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> except the Mac (and
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> it). -- Bill Joy '85
>
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