[nas] will correctly setting up NAS/etc? fix this issue?

[Jon Trulson]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Kristoffer wrote:

> as outlined here:
>
> http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/Allow%20multiple%20programs%20to%20play%20sound%20at%20once
>
> (largely compiled by me... but as you can see, there is no definite 
> non-propriatory solution yet.)
>
> (if you want you can add to the NAS section if NAS would be able to fix 
> this...)
>
> have anyone gotten this to work, or know how to do it with NAS? Is it 
> possible? Is it 100%?This issue
> remains perhaps the most frequently encountered audio problem on linux...
>
> i would LOVE it if anyone could help me/others here... I have battled with 
> this for weeks... :/
>

 	NAS *could* help here.  NAS aware clients will share the audio 
stream - ie: they will be mixed.  When NAS is not currently servicing any 
clients, it will, by default, close the audio device to allow other 
software to use it.

 	The key here is that all of the clients would need to be using NAS 
as their audio output device.  non-NAS aware apps can make use of Erik's 
LD_PRELOAD libaudiooss library (with certain restrictions) to fool OSS 
apps into talking NAS by intercepting opens/write/etc to /dev/dsp et. al.

 	mmap'd dsp driver's will not work with libaudiooss IIRC.


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