TeamSpeak and Regnum Online

[ChadMC]

Does anyone know how I can use TeamSpeak and play Regnum Online at the same time with the sound working for both? I want to voice chat with my friend while we play. The audio drivers are conflicting. I've been trying to get it to work with a lot of google searching. I think I can get it to work using alsa-oss (command: aoss), but when i use that, the audio in teamspeak is very skippy. I'm not sure if the audio in regnum online is skippy, because the server seems to be down right now.

[Arvenil]

Buy soundcard with hardware mixing

[ChadMC]

Yes, but is there nothing I can try to get it to work? Because this same soundcard is capable of doing such things in windows, so I'm sure there must be something I can enable/change to get it to work in linux.

[dejan]

I haven't seen that Regnum has support for that, ChadMC... What You refer at is something like what the opensource library libspeex (for more information: http://www.speex.org/ ) offers.
It would be really cool if speex functionality is incorporated into the Regnum client!

[Arvenil]

Im not sure but if TS and Regnum Online doesn't use alsa then is propably no solution for mixing sound from this two applications.

This two applications should use alsa.

[Myxir]

its the "fault" of TeamSpeak... it does not use ALSA, it uses oss.
some people got it to work and others not. @ me it works cause i use two sound cards

[ChadMC]

Originally Posted by Myxir

its the "fault" of TeamSpeak... it does not use ALSA, it uses oss.
some people got it to work and others not. @ me it works cause i use two sound cards

I've been thinking about doing this too... how do you have yours set up? What do you have each soundcard doing? Because it seems like you can only get TS and regnum to playback on separate sound cards, so how are you getting TS and regnum to playback through the same speakers/headphones?

Or am I thinking about this the wrong way...

[Myxir]

Originally Posted by ChadMC

I've been thinking about doing this too... how do you have yours set up? What do you have each soundcard doing? Because it seems like you can only get TS and regnum to playback on separate sound cards, so how are you getting TS and regnum to playback through the same speakers/headphones?

Or am I thinking about this the wrong way...

TS comes via my headset and the others via my surround sound system but i think its possible to get it out of the sound system by using some cables connecting the output of my onboardsound with the output of the other sound card.... dunno
i modified my .asoundrc a bit:

pcm.CA0106 {
        type hw
        card 0
}

ctl.CA0106 {
        type hw
        card 0
}

pcm.intel8x0 {
        type hw
        card 1
}

ctl.intel8x0 {
        type hw
        card 1
}



# Das dmix-Plugin wird definiert.
pcm.dmixer {
    type dmix
    ipc_key 1024
    ipc_perm 0666       # Andere Benutzer können ebenfalls dmix gleichzeitig nutzen
    slave.pcm "card1"
    slave {
        # buffer_size kann bei Problemen der jeweiligen Karte angepasst werden.
        period_time 0
        period_size 1024
        buffer_size 4096
        # bei Störungen kann die Konvertierung auf die Rate 44100 eingeschaltet werden.
        # rate 44100
        # einige Soundkarten benötigen das exakte Datenformat (zB ice1712)
        # format S32_LE
    }
    bindings {
        0 0
        1 1
    }
}

# Das dsnoop-Plugin, welches es erlaubt, mehrere Programme gleichzeitig aufnehmen zu lassen.
pcm.dsnooper {
    type dsnoop
    ipc_key 2048
    ipc_perm 0666 
    slave.pcm "card1"
    slave 
    {
        period_time 0
        period_size 1024
        buffer_size 4096
        # bei Störungen kann die Konvertierung auf die Rate 44100 eingeschaltet werden.
        # rate 44100
        # einige Soundkarten benötigen das exakte Datenformat (zB ice1712)
        # format S32_LE
    }
    bindings {
        0 0
        1 1
    }
}

# Dies definiert unser Fullduplex-Plugin als Standard für alle ALSA-Programme.
pcm.duplex {
    type asym
    playback.pcm "dmixer"
    capture.pcm "dsnooper"
}

pcm.card1 {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "duplex"
}

ca0106 is my main sound card and intel8x0 is my onboard sound card.
It works But in my opinion this is no good solution because not everyone has two sound cards.

€dit:
I forgot something: You need to set TeamSpeaks sound device to /dev/dsp1 in this case.

[Arvenil]

Also you can buy some old cheap "sound blaster live!" card which comes with hardware mixing so you can forgot about problems with mixing sound.

[Myxir]

i got one but it does not work -.-