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

[stan]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 16:21:01 -0700
suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 October 2010 12:04, stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:
> > I think there are some very high end audio cards that have more than
> > one processing pipeline, but I have never owned one.
> 
> I think the "very high end" comment is probably not true anymore. I
> used to own an Intel HDA integrated chip couple of years back capable
> of doing that (I primarily used Windows XP back then) . However the
> driver support used to be rather patchy even on Windows, but it did
> work. I think on supported hardware with today's linux systems a
> combination of pulseaudio and ALSA can achieve that without much
> hassle. (have to admit I haven't tried it yet)
> 

If this is now true, I agree it should be dead simple to use under
pulseaudio, since pavuctl will show a separate device for each
pipeline (subdevice in alsa terminology), as long as alsa also
recognizes them. All that would need to be done is to set up each
of the two applications to use a different pulseaudio device.