Re: [Alsa-xmms-user] dmix plugin / will it work one day?

[Matthieu Sozeau]

On Friday 13 June 2003 17:53, Davy Defaud wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have the same problem as dicribed by Steve Lung when trying to remap
> the default alsa (v 0.9.4) sound device to the dmix plugin.
> alsa-xmms 0.9.11 (and mplayer) refuses to work correctly.
> It seems to work but freeze when you click on the stop button.

I tested the same configuration and have no problems at all 
(play/stop/pause/seek works, mplayer+xmms also). I still see, as Steve Leung 
mentioned, that when using a dmix device, there are still references to it in 
the calling process after stop (which closes the device leaving no references 
to it usually). I've got: /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:    2700m  2703m  2708m  2713m
which are xmms threads. 

> To answer (partially) to Steve Lung, it seems that the alsa-xmms plugin
> violates the ALSA API as Jaroslav Kisela says here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg06902.html

aplay doesn't use this part of the API either...

> It should be very nice if Mathieu Sozeau could fix the problem because I
> think we're all waiting for dmix plugin to be the replacement for all
> the dirty sound servers that doesn't work properly (esd, arts...)

I'd like to but have no idea what your problem is :(

Do you know any alsa application that works with dmix nicely (e.g. alsaplayer, 
zinf), so I can look at it's code ?
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