[orca-list] ALSA and multiple devices

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 18:32 +0300, Mohammed Al-shar' wrote:
> very interesting!
>
> can you provide me with more info?
Sorry I haven't used it, I just remember finding comments about it when
I was searching for another answer to an alsa question (related to
dmix). I think the ALSA docs do discuss it, but you may wish to search
the internet as well for something more readable. As I remember its the
bindings, and you set them up in your .asoundrc file. So something like 
alsa configuration bindings 
may bring something up which is suitable, if not you may want to add
dmix to the words to try and search for.

From
Michael Whapples
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> > I don't know if such cards exist, but from what I understand, with alsa
> > you can configure it so that different channels on the card appear as
> > different devices, or you can combine two cards into one device. So I
> > suppose if you have something like a 5.1 channel sound card you could
> > set it to use rear channels for speech and front for audio. The only
> > limitation to this configuration would be that you now can't use the
> > card for surround sound while configured like that. If you want surround
> > sound, then sound cards can be got very cheaply, consider buying one
> > specifically for speech.
> >
> > From
> > Michael Whapples
> > > Message: 8
> > > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:30:43 -0500
> > > From: "Brent Harding" <bharding doorpi net>
> > > Subject: Re: [orca-list] sound on feisty
> > > To: <orca-list gnome org>
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> > > Are there cards that can actually handle the multiple sources coming in 
> > > out
> > > there that don't depend on odd Windows drivers to do it? I don't know 
> > > that
> > > we can set a separate device to be used for speech.
> >
> >
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