Multiple application using sound

[Robin Laing]

Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote:
> Cédric MARCOUX wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
>> I just wonder how to set my fedora core 2 for multiple application 
>> using sound. Because if i launch an application using sound (for 
>> exemple skype), I cannot get any sound in other application lauched 
>> after... (like a game)
>>
> 
> If you are using kde, there is the artsd daemon which is responsible for 
> doing exactly that. The problem is that the application has to talk to 
> arts when producing sound (I mean, it has to send sound to arts so arts 
> plays the sound for your application). This way it can mix the many 
> applications sounds.
> 
> For example, you can hear sounds from gaim and zsnes because they both 
> talk to arts.
> 
> 
> The problem is that skype doesn't talk to arts, or at least I don't know 
> how to make it talk. This way, the sound device is exclusively locked by 
> the skype and your game can't access it and blocks. The same happens if 
> you start an application which uses sound and try to lauch skype.
> 
> I heard that alsa would do the mixing by itself, but I don't know how to 
> do that.
> 
> So, I think that we are out of luck if try to use skype to talk while 
> gaming :(
> 
> Please, let me know if somebody here has more suggestions about what can 
> be done about this. I'd like to know too.
> 
> I hope it helps.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
> 
> 

This is also a problem with ESD and gnome. :(
I fought to get audacity to work in gnome and finally found that I 
have to disable esd.  Now things seem to work okay.

-- 
Robin Laing