Talk:ALSA

'Sound mixing inconsistent' is not a good topic
Well, it doesn't make me think of dmix issue. Not that I can think of a better name but it should probably say something about sharing the card between multiple applications, or just something like 'Only one application is able to use the card'. Michał Górny 08:06, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeed, the title does not really reflect the issue well. I've renamed the title to Soundcard only available for one application. --SwifT (talk) 18:50, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Potential merger with Gentoo doc
The alsa guide on the main site will be redirecting to this page. If any content of the guide is needed (reuse), you can find the wikified version in my user space. --SwifT (talk) 07:54, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

JACK and AC3
I am not using AC3, but have been jack running all the time from years. I think the text on jack and ac3 need a complete review, because ac3 is made for listening audio sources like DVD, when jack is mean to produce them before to encode them to AC3 or whatever.

That must imply a jackified player playing an AC3 source, must provide to jack as many audio outputs than audio streams in the AC3 stream. It is up to the user to connect them to another software or to the hardware. I also don't think this will crash jack. If I can find some AC3 source, I can try it. --DominiqueMichel (talk) 16:49, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, I find one, and was playing it with mplayer and smplayer. With my audiophile 192, which have only 2 outputs, mplayer play the video but fail to play the sound, as it doesn't find enough outputs. With the built'in hda-intel sound card, mplayer play both the audio and the video. I can even output a 5.1 AC-3 stream as if it was a 7.1 stream. It is just to configure the output as 7.1 in smplayer preferences.--DominiqueMichel (talk) 10:40, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I modified a few more things and removed the note.--DominiqueMichel (talk) 11:21, 12 August 2013 (UTC)