arts and alsa

[John]

I just have to agree with that even when he doesn't answer some of my more 
awkward questions.
Regards
John

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 11:54, Rick Miles wrote:
> Kevin Krammer is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says!
> <snip>
>
> > > Does this mean that arts is using alsa to provide sound?
> >
> > Yes.
> > aRts will compose the audio data it gets, e.g. decode compressed data
> > like OGG vorbis and then write this to the sound driver depending on its
> > configuration
> >
> > > > so from ALSA's point of view
> > > > Arts should look like one of its applications.
> > >
> > > Does this mean alsa is being supplied sound by by an application called
> > > arts?
> >
> > If ALSA is the sound system which aRts is configured to use then yes.
> >
> > > I'd just like to know why I can't access input devices in audacity
> > > unless I kill all arts pids or run audacity with the command "artsdsp
> > > -m audacity"
> >
> > Hmm, does your ALSA setup allow concurrent access to the sound device?
> > e.g. having a card that allows to be accessed by more than one
> > application or an ALSA level sound mixer
> >
> > Check by running to ALSA programs other than aRts
>
> Thanks Kevin,
>
> Worrying sound is fairly new to me as I/ve started fooling around with
> dvb-t, video and sound files. I'll have to figure out what I have that uses
> alsa and not arts.
>
> Maybe its an alsa problem. I woke up this morning, booted up and had no
> sound at all until I ran alsaconf alsamixer and alsactl store. I had sound
> when I walked away last night albeit I did have two scheduled mencoder jobs
> before the automated shutdown.

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