Alsa and Intel 810 chipset

[Janina Sajka]

Handling simoultaneous audio output streams on cards that don't mix
audio in hardware is the job of dmix in alsa. Beginning with alsa 1.0.9,
dmix is the default configuration.

I would agree about keeping oss emmulation in alsa, as Adam says, for
many years still.

I don't know about zinf, but I can say I've stopped using it. mplayer is
sufficient for me.

Adam Myrow writes:
> To put it bluntly, Zinf is the most bug-ridden piece of junk I've ever 
> encountered.  Not once have I gotten decent audio from it.  The only file 
> format that Zinf can supposedly handle that Mplayer can't is shoutcast 
> streams.  Otherwise, Mplayer handles pretty much anything I throw at it. 
> BTW, I strongly recommend against leaving out OSS emulation when building 
> Alsa.  Far too many applications still expect OSS-style support, and 
> probably will continue to do so for some time.
> 
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