[alsa-devel] What are subdevices?

Clemens Ladisch clemens at ladisch.de
Sun Oct 26 10:11:43 CET 2014


dE wrote:
> A device seems like the output streams the sound card supports. Like HDMI, DP, analog etc...
>
> So what's a subdevice?

A subdevice is an output streams the sound card supports.

Typically, a device has multiple subdevices if the card supports hardware mixing; all
the subdevices end up at the same physical output.


Regards,
Clemens


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