[alsa-devel] Software mixing according to priority of streams

[Seth Forshee]

Hi Nobin,

On 6/15/07, Nobin Mathew <nobin.mathew at gmail.com> wrote:
> A sound server can do this
>
> Maintain a buffer per application ,
> and each buffer will have priority. when data comes on higher priority
> buffer stop taking data from low priority buffer, and configure the
> audio and start pumping data from high priority buffer.
>

Not to stray too far OT here, but take a look at the message in the
link below from the PulseAudio mailing list.  Sounds like the type of
thing you're looking for (although I don't think any patches have been
submitted yet).

https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2007-May/000389.html

Cheers,
Seth