Soundmixer - easy sound mixing.

bored for five minutes and had an idea - package up all my sound configs, cause they might work for others. these configs provide sound mixing out of the box betwen alsa, oss and esd, using dmix. And it can't possibly get any easier than installing something with pacman.
Just makepkg, pacman -U, and relog. You may need to restart any daemons that use sound to ensure they get the aoss profile change.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … =1&ID=7262
gives me working sound mixing in alsa and oss applications out of the box on my two computers.
tested using savage + alsa apps, and realplayer and alsa apps. I'm sure this same config has worked in the past with ET, which implies it should work with most games. Also includes esd support, so if an application is problematic with alsa or oss, it ought to work perfectly on esd which pipes it through to alsa.
aquila deus has been saying that dmix drops sound quality. With the default config, I did have some problems, was a bit choppy, though that was fixed with a slight increase in the buffer. I havnt noticed any delay due to the slightly larger buffer either, and no noticable quality problems. But different hardware and such, I can't guarantee results, and frankly, have no idea how well this will work for others - ALSA can be funny sometimes.
so lemme know how this goes for you.
James

aquila_deus wrote:
iphitus wrote:
aquila_deus wrote:But the quality is still reduced (see their docs), whether you can hear or not
and for most users, that's completely irrelevant. as long as its an inaudible drop -- it doesnt matter. if you're an audiophile, then you have different needs - dont push them on the majority, and if you do, you can make a package that sets everything up as simply as this does.
You could try it with onboard cards with headphones
There is a quite simple solution: ALSA should do mixing inside the kernel, rather than using extern lib which needs a lot of hacks to work (and certainly harder to code, how did they come up with the crazy idea in first place??), and does *normal* resampling and mixing just like jackd.
heh, I dont see any hacks to work in this setup. all alsa apps work sweet, and there's a workaround for older OSS apps which have yet to be converted.
alsa's not going away mate, its just growing stronger, so your complaints are falling on deaf ears. oss apps will be less and less, and in turn, oss2jack will be the one using crazy hacks.
and uh, alsa does do the mixing in the kernel, and jackd certainly doesnt. so... not sure where you got that from.
James

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