On 17-03-08 09:05, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:18:15 +0100, Rene Herman wrote:
Don't do it there. Use /etc/asound.conf or $HOME/.asoundrc ...
Or /etc/asound.conf. It's the additional place for the system-wide definitions.
That's what I said. What happened? Alexander also completely missed that...
Exactly why you need that slave definition I'm not sure either, but it seems you do.
The file plugin requires the slave for its configuration and as the timing source. Using "null" is just to accept any config and feed the data as fast as possible. If you need to save the data as if it's being played, use the kernel dummy driver as the slave.
I see, thanks.
Also note that /tmp/pcm.out will be headerless PCM and is recreated for individual opens. I don't believe there's an append mode or anything (and you'd need to make sure that everyone plays the same format) so not toot sure if this is what you need to have a catch all audio-sink...
Recently I added a new option "truncate" to file plugin. As default, it's set to true (for compatibility reason), and the plugin overwrite the existing file if reopened. When it's set to false, a new file is created with a different suffix (up to 1000 files) at each time.
That sounds useful...
Rene.