[ILUG] OOM discussion...

[Caolan McNamara]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 10.03.00, 02:57:52, Smelly Pooh <plop at redbrick.dcu.ie> wrote 
regarding Re: [ILUG] OOM discussion...:


> In reply to John P. Looney's flatulent wordings,
> > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 04:28:26PM -0000, Liam Bedford mentioned:
> > > However, playing multiple sounds, and still having xmms running in the
> > > background is fun.
> >
> >  Point to note: the soundblaster PCI64/128's that have an ES1371 chip 
in
> > them give you a /dev/dsp0 and a /dev/dsp1 - so if you can get xmms to 
use
> > /dev/dsp1, and link /dev/dsp to /dev/dsp0 (default), you should get
> > something similar.

> And what's with this openAL business (actually don't answer that), 
everybody
> wants a piece of the Linux sound industry but not too many of them are 
backed
> by a sound card manufacturer

I was talking to the Vance character from lokigames about it, and it 
doesn't do networked sound at the moment, but he reckons that it 
could. So I'm plinking at it at the moment, got two possibilities. A) 
make AL output to an esd port and send that data across to an esd 
daemon. B) split the library so that it natively has network support. 
I like B because A is a real kludge. Problem with B is that its yet 
another networked sound solution. But I might as well investigate the 
feasiability of it all, keep me occupied for a while.

C.

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