2 Sounds At The Same Time

hey guys,

isn't any way we can do say 2 music tasks at the same time in suse? i mean any tricks?
forexample we are talking via a chat client and listening to a music at the same time
is that possible?

thanks in advance

Hey man. I don't think there is this possibility. maybe using two different engines or two different sound cards at the same time. :lol:

Hi,

The fact that almost no linux distribution allows you to play two sounds at the same time is at least a SEVERE LIMITATION. Today all computers have enough processing power to do software mixing of the sounds.
I googled and came up with the following link:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...p/asoundrc.php

I hope this works in openSuse 10.1 as I didn't try it yet.

It would be nice if yast offered an option to choose for software mixing....


Regix

See this very recent thread: Multiple Audio Output

erm.... I think you may be wrong about Linux/SuSE not playing two sounds at once....

I use to have my onboard sound card that could not play 2 sounds at once....

Now I have a SoundBlaster Audigy 2 (24 bit) card installed and with arts and alsa fired up and playing ut2004 I hear aramok playing and the im's from gaim come in with no prob...

Ima guessin..... you dont have a high-end sound card...

I have also a SoundBlaster USB 24 bit soundcard.
I configured it to use the USB generic driver.
When I try to preview a movie while Amarok is playing I get no sound.

What driver are you using?

regix

I see this all the time and don't understand why people have issues with it.

I can play a video in xine, and another in mplayer, and watch tv, and fire up an mp3, and as confusing as it gets, they all play sound simultaneously.

Numerous different sounds all running at once.

hawes:/home/Hawes # cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.9rc4a emulation code)
Kernel: Linux hawes 2.6.8-24.24-default #1 Fri Jul 21 04:06:26 UTC 2006 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
Audigy 2 Value [SB0400] (rev.0, serial:0x10011102) at 0xe400, irq 11

Audio devices:
0: ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback (DUPLEX)

Synth devices:
0: Emu10k1

Midi devices:
0: Audigy MPU-401 (UART)

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: SigmaTel STAC9750,51
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I see this all the time and don't understand why people have issues with it. I can play a video in xine, and another in mplayer, and watch tv, and fire up an mp3, and as confusing as it gets, they all play sound simultaneously. Numerous different sounds all running at once.[/b]

The same is true for my PC. I have no problem playing sounds simultaneous from different devices. Its not a feature that I particularly want. Its merely a feature I have on my SuSE.

The fact that almost no linux distribution allows you to play two sounds at the same time is at least a SEVERE LIMITATION. Today all computers have enough processing power to do software mixing of the sounds.[/b]

The thing is, I did not do anything special for this that I am aware of. It is simply the way it is on my SuSE PCs. Hence since I don't know why it works, I can offer no suggestions to help on this thread, other than to note the semi-rant a few posts about about linux (not having this capability) is incorrect, and that semi-rant is based more on frustration than fact.

Odd, I use my motherboard's AC 97 onboard sound. I have no problems with playing a CD & chat, system sounds, java or flash. Could it be that some sound cards do not support duplex operation in SuSe?