<Sound Dev> sound on Linux

[Paulo Levi]

So this is only fixed on openjdk? No code level work around for lower versions?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:24 AM, cyberGn0m <cy6ergn0m at gmail.com> wrote:
> I run mplayer in "alsa" mode and many mplayer's can play sound at the same
> time in this mode. Java uses ALSA too, but it gets exclusive access to audio
> device...
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> 2009/10/14 PJ leonard <pauljohnleonard at googlemail.com>
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>> My understanding is:
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>> mplayer might use pulseaudio which allows the sharing of the soundoutput
>> (on my ubuntu this is the default)
>> JAVA uses the alsa device directly so it can not be used by other
>> applications.
>> iced tea JAVA does have a pulseaudio device but I can only produce broken
>> up sound using this.
>>
>> Paul.
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>> 2009/10/13 cyberGn0m <cy6ergn0m at gmail.com>
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>>> Anybody tested java sound on linux? As I know, java uses ALSA on Linux to
>>> play audio.. so, i have a problem with it: when java plays sound, other
>>> applications can't play anything. When other applications plays sound, java
>>> can't. As i know, mplayer can play sound via ALSA and i can open many
>>> players and all of them will plays as expected...
>>>
>>>
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