Re: play-sound-file & esd

[joakim@verona.se]

Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:

Just some notes:

- Alsa enables multiopen only if the underlying hardware supports
  this. Cheap laptop audio normally doesnt for instance.
- There are several sound daemons out there: 
  - esd used by gnome
  - arts used by kde
  - gstreamer
  - jackd used by people interested in music applications
  
I would say that finding a solution for emacs that always manages to
play a sound withouth configuration is next to impossible.

Maybe a solution would be to make it possible to configure an external
player command, when the internal method is not suficient?



> Andreas Schwab skrev:
>> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>>> Where do we stand on this?
>>>
>>> It looks like you are running ALSA v1.0.11rc2, and it does NOT
>>> work to have multiple opens.  ALSA experts, is that version supposed
>>> to be new enough to support multiple opens?
>> AFAIK that version should be new enough.  But only the native ALSA
>> interface has access to the software mixer.  When using the legacy OSS
>> interface (eg. through /dev/dsp) you are still limited to a single open.
>> 
>
> Aha, that is why it works for me.  So then we should make Emacs use
> the ALSA API.  This doesn't look too hard, but I guess it is something
> for after the release.
>
> 	Jan D.

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