Re: [linux-audio-user] Getting two sound cards to work

On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 00:51 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > I have a different 2 card problem. hw:1 is my main card.
> > I'd like to duplicate the output of hw:1 and send it to
> > the output of hw:0. Mandrake 10.1, ALSA 1.0.6 here.
>
> there's an ALSA plugin which can do so - unfortunately I
> forgot the name. I remember DMIX and DSNOOP - there's a third
> one which can do what you need.

That only works if the cards are synced via word clock.

You can't send the same audio to 2 different cards, because they will
consume data at different rates, resulting in periodic xruns.

Lee
Received on Sat Apr 30 04:15:08 2005