[sldev] [BUG] Voice chat output on leenooks.

[Carsten Juttner]

Alan Grimes wrote:
> I've been tinkering with voice chat on linux. It seems I can transmit 
> fine and dandy using the line-in on my M-Audio 2496... However, the 
> only option it gives for output device is the null device, I went to a 
> voice chat club and confirmed that I can transmit well enough but I 
> simply cannot hear on the voice channel. SL should be able to mix it 
> in with the environment sounds and music -- which work well enough...

Even though I did not test voice on Linux (the 32 bit SLVoice executable 
seems not to work properly together with an 64 Bit viewer) I assume it 
is the same as in Windows where the SLVoice application that is started 
in the background simply writes its output directly to the sound device 
and the SL viewer only controls the setup.

On Linux this only works if your sound system is setup to support 
several applications opening the sound device in parallel.

Personally I setup ALSA with the dmix-plugin to make it possible and 
since KDE also allows arts to go through ALSA I now have all (behaving) 
applications output sound concurrently.

Regards,
Carsten