> On 10/31/07, Samuel Proulx wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been using obsd as my primary desktop for a while now and i have a question about the sound system , is there a way to play
> > two sounds at the same time ? Example watching youtube videos with opera and playing some music in the background with mpd or xmms .
> > thank you for your time ; )
>
> Unix has always been kind of weak in this area. You need a mixer of
> some sort to do this. Not /dev/mixer, which controls audio volumes for
> the different hardware devices, but a software mixer.
> You'll probably want
http://ports.openbsd.nu/audio/esound. There's
> something called Pulse which is intended as a drop in (but superior)
> replacement for esound, and someone () ported it to OpenBSD, but it's
> not in the tree yet.
> Reading
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup might be
> enlightening; it describes how to configure each program you want to
> use to use pulse.
>
> Looking around some more, here's something like how you'd have to
> configure mpd to use esound:
> audio_output {
> type "ao"
> driver "esd"
> options "host=jurp5-desktop:16001"
> name "esd"
> }
>
> Yes, you need to have each program direct it's output to the mixer,
> there's no way (as far as I know) to sneakily make /dev/audio be a
> software mixer. I don't know if the reason there's no /dev/audio_mix
> is technical, or if it's just that no one's done the work, or if it's
> just a tradition now.
>
> -Nick
