[gst-devel] ALSA mixing

[Ronald S. Bultje]

On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 12:03, Jan Schmidt wrote:
> There is a deficiency in that alsamixer opens /dev/pcm* when all it really 
> wants is access to the mixer in /dev/control*. This means that 
> a) If rhythmbox (or anything else) is playing, then gnome-volume-control 
> can't open the mixer. 
> b) If gnome-volume-control is open I can't play in rhythmbox. 
> This is going to cause strange bug reports, so I'll try and look at it 
> before 0.8 goes out (ie, tonight or tomorrow)
> 
> There is a similar problem in ossmixer too, I think, opening /dev/dsp?.

Ossmixer actually opens /dev/mixer in the device probe and if we're
solely a mixer. Slightly hackish, but it works. That bug was reported
and fixed a few months ago already.

I'm not familiar enough with ALSA to know how to fix it here,
unfortunately. Hope I pushed the topic a bit closer to fixage, though.
:).

Ronald