[alsa-devel] [PATCH] Per Application Volume Control plugin for ALSA

[Raymond Yau]

2010/10/18 James Huk <huk256 at gmail.com>

> Thanks for the answers, everyone.
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> @Raymond Yau:
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> > does dmix allow an application open at least 16 voices ?
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> I think dmix allows much more than that, if your PC can handle it.
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>
Those hardware mixing sound implement the per voice volume control ( 16-64
voices by hardware ) using IFACE_PCM instead of IFACE_MIXER

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-tools.git;a=blob;f=hwmixvolume/README

How dmix prevent clipping occur when it mix several voices ?