[alsa-devel] concept of substream...

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:03:47 +0530,
Vinod Koul wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 10:25 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > > Please note that when opening a device without specifying a
> > substream
> > > > number, ALSA will open the first free one.  This implies that all
> > > > substreams should go the same output (i.e., be mixed together).
> > > Mixed in alsa or should be mixed by device?
> > 
> > It's pretty much depending on the hardware and the driver
> > implementation. 
> okay does it means its fair assumption that in driver I will get 5
> opens/5 buffers. And driver is tasked with routing them to respective
> output?

Yes.


Takashi