[alsa-devel] switching pcm devices dynamically when using dmix

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Mon Aug 8 14:40:13 CEST 2011


At Wed, 3 Aug 2011 15:13:09 -0700,
Baek Chang wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering if the following is possible.
> 
> If I have my asound.conf configured in such a way that
> 
> pcm.media {
> 
> }
> 
> route to hw:0,0 throuh dmix.
> 
> can I dynamically change the device to hw:0,1 or hw:1,0 if necessary?

Not possible with the current implementation.
For such a purpose, better to use PulseAudio.


Takashi


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