Re: [RESOLVED[ Seperate audio outputs for fedora- is this limited by my soundcard or the number of outputs on my motherboard?

[Samuel Kidman]

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:04 AM, stan  wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 01:11:01 +0800
> Samuel Kidman  wrote:
> > I want to be able to play one audio source through my headphones (say
> > from one application) and then play another audio source through my
> > line out port (from another application). Is this possible?
>
> Short answer, no.
>
> I think there are some very high end audio cards that have more than
> one processing pipeline, but I have never owned one.  With a standard
> card, this is not possible because the "engine" can only process one
> stream at a time.  The analog output has to go to the output device
> continuously, so it can't do more than one at a time because there is
> no time. :-)  In other words, to have two sound streams running
> simultaneously to different outputs, you have to have two sound
> devices.  Jack and pulseaudio solve a different problem; mixing
> multiple inputs before sending them to the "engine", and routing the
> output to multiple places.
>
> Just buy a cheap USB soundcard (get one that adheres to the standard,
> or if it doesn't, has been reverse engineered to work in alsa), and you
> can do what you want.  Desktop users can use USB, but also can use a
> cheap PCI card also.
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Hi Stan

Thanks for that informative answer.

Regards, Sam