[SDL] SDL 1.3 audio API proposal...

[Peter Mulholland]

Simon Roby wrote:

> Say what? ALSA does have hardware mixing, as long as the drivers and
> hardware support it, of course. I know at least two drivers that
> implement it: cs46xx and emu10k1. On supported hardware you get
> multiple output streams that can be used independently.
> 
> Application support is another thing though. The only application I
> know that actually makes use of ALSA hardware mixing is Stepmania.

This is not the same thing. This means you can open the sound device 
more than once, so that you can have more than one app running that's 
outputting sound. It is not the same as having your app open the sound 
device and then being able to feed it multiple channels to mix together.

Whenever I've inquired about such features I've been curtly told either 
a) "Do it in software" or b) "use OpenAL"

Pete.