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

[Dr Scofield]

Carsten Juttner wrote:
> 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.
care to share your alsa config file?

    cheers,
    dr scofield

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