xmms-arts plugin

[Rod Person]

On Thursday 11 September 2003 03:11 am, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> You don't *need* it, but xmms will lock the sound-device while playing and
> thus hindering kde-apps using it. One solution is to use vchans, but it
> sound *awfull* with my HW. An arts-plugin to xmms would be really nice, but
> I never got the plugin working apart from crashing everythin IIRC.

To do this you need to use sysctl and set hw.snd.pcm.vchan and 
hw.snd.maxautovchans.

I have mine set to four. So I have 4 channels for audio.

Then you can use KDE control panel to set Sound I/O to use a custom sound 
device. Set it to /dev/dsp0.1 and KDE sounds will go through this device, 
leaving XMMS to have it's own device.

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Rod

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