Yury Bulka schrieb am Monday, den 17. December 2012: > 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? I plan to orphan mpd soon. Feel free to take over.
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