[PLUG] Need Help w/ SB Live under Red Hat 6.2

[Alex Docauer]

I think OSS can do multiple audio streams if the hardware supports it, like on my
SB Live.  The only advantage that ESD has is that it can mix multiple streams
manually in the daemon if the card only supports a single stream, such as an AWE
32.

Alex

Richard June wrote:

> Why would you want to use esd, let me count the ways...
>
> 1. Multiple concurrent audio streams, something I don't think OSS stuff
> can dol.
> 2. Network transparency(mpg123 -s <filename> |esdcat -s <server> kicks
> some ass)
> ok, so those are the two big reasons, but aren't they big enough? esd
> isn't a replacement for the OSS drivers, because it isn't a driver, its a
> daemon, all it does is catch audio streams, and feeds them to the OSS or
> Alsa driver.