I completely agree with Konstantin Khomoutov. All the apps like web browsers and vlc are able to use dmix without any noticeable loss of sound quality. Also, vlc with dmix for some reason still uses less CPU than mpd without dmix.
With firefox there's another problem: when a video (html5 or flash) has been played, the program still sits on the audio device until the browser is restarted. This is definitely not a good behavior but it is a problem if something like MPD wants to have exclusive access to the hardware. I believe that only realtime production-critical programs like jackd should use hw:0 by default. MPD is just another media player like vlc or mplayer. Alsa developers decided to enable dmix by default, and why we are reverting their decision on a per-program basis? Why ALSA has a "default" device at all then? Isn't it actually designed to be used by default? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
