Sean McNamara wrote:
Is this another one of your open-ended questions where you already know of the problems with your question and the potential solutions, but you actually have a bug using one of the solutions? If so, can I have some more money? ;-)
Well, basically, only a very small subset of audio devices out there (some older Creative soundblaster cards, and some newer pro audio cards) have hardware mixing on-chip. ALSA's default raw interfaces do not provide any software mixing, so unless the hardware supports hardware mixing and the driver takes advantage of that, you won't have the ability to open multiple streams at once on *any* ALSA device.
That's why we have:
- Dmix, and
- PulseAudio.
There is ample documentation out there about how to set up and configure dmix and pulseaudio. To add dmix to your example, you would just have to define a dmix instance with a slave of your softvol PCM, and a dsnoop device with a slave of the softvol device. If softvol doesn't work this way, try making the slave the headset device.
Pulseaudio could also use the raw headset device in module-alsa-sink.
Have you tried these with no success? If so, what sorts of issues are you getting?
I just thought I'd point out that, with the configuration you posted, there is no expectation that you'll get any sort of mixing of streams at all; that's by design. But based on your previous posts I think you already know that...?
Sean
2008/10/24 Jelle de Jong jelledejong@powercraft.nl:
Hello everybody,
I have a bunch of bluetooth audio devices, and I can currently only play one audio stream as once, and i would like to be able to listen to radio and other sounds at the same time. So i think some sort of software mixing is needed to get this working. I attached my .asound / also configuration. How can I configure my bluetooth system so that I can listen to different sources of audio at the same time?
Thank for any information in advance,
Kind regards,
Jelle
Thank you again for responding to my question. I first wanted to say no question I ask here had an answer that I already knew so nobody is wasting their time :-p. The situation is I know enough to see what is probably going wrong, and might have some idea's how to fix them, but I have no idea how to finally deliver or configure an working solution.
The thing is the .asoundrc configuration style is kind of difficult for me to understand. I have always been in trouble finding exact documentation what all lines do. I always been a lot of searching for examples and then the trial and error method, with take an enormous amount of energy and time. Besides this the alsa wiki seems down here for a few days now.
I seems I would like to add a dmix and/or dsnoop device to my current .asoundrc configuration to create software mixing for the bluetooth device so it can handle multiple audio streams. But I have no idea how to further configure my .asoundrc.
If somebody can show me some examples how to do this or change the attachment and add some comments what background information was used to gather the required knowledge, then this would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Jelle
pcm.headset { type bluetooth #~ device 00:0D:18:A0:35:70 #~ device 00:53:53:FB:7E:9C # Nokia BH-801 #~ device 00:0C:55:D1:C9:78 # Motorola S805 #~ device 00:0D:FD:18:6E:3C # Motorola S9 #~ device 20:07:09:15:A9:5A # Samsung WEP210 #~ python .simple-agent.py hci0 00:1A:80:AB:0A:B1 device 00:1A:80:AB:0A:B1 # Sony SRS-BT100 profile hifi #profile voice #profile auto } pcm.softvol { type softvol slave.pcm headset control.name Headset control.card 0 } pcm.!default { #~ type hw #~ card 0 type plug slave.pcm softvol }