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SpeedVin

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[Solved] OSS v4.1 and headphones question.

Hello
I want to buy headphones they will be from PHILLIPS or CREATIVE.
And here i want to ask i'm using OSS v4.1 and there's will be problems becouse i search on this forum about OSS and headphones and I find some problem with it.
Thanks a lot for answer

Last edited by SpeedVin (2009-07-08 14:52:40)

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R00KIE

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Re: [Solved] OSS v4.1 and headphones question.

Are they USB headphones? If not then I don't see why you should have any problems.
If they are USB then it can be a bit more tricky as USB support is experimental in OSSv4. I have a USB headset from Logitech that works just fine though.

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Veovis Muad'dib

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Re: [Solved] OSS v4.1 and headphones question.

Are they USB headphones? If not then I don't see why you should have any problems.
If they are USB then it can be a bit more tricky as USB support is experimental in OSSv4. I have a USB headset from Logitech that works just fine though.

To expand on this a bit, if your audio out port works without a hitch for either speakers or headphones, any problems you get are because of faulty headphones, and a replacement of the same model would work.  Unless, like R00KIE said, they are USB.  In which case, I can't even find a pair of headphones on linuxcompatible.org, so I have no idea how you'll be able to know beforehand.  I guess if you have a laptop you could bring it to a store and try them out, if you have a store nearby that will let you.

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SpeedVin

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Re: [Solved] OSS v4.1 and headphones question.

Oh I see thank you both my headphones will be on normal audio input (not usb) and someone have that situation will be hard to change source of audio?
Need I ossxmix to do that?

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Re: [Solved] OSS v4.1 and headphones question.

I'm not quite sure of what you mean by source of audio .... I guess you mean the output.
I use OSSv4 and the most I have to do is manually mute the speakers if I don't want them to play when I have my headphones plugged in.
Apart from that I don't need to do anything else, I plug the headphones and they output whatever is being played.

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SpeedVin

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Re: [Solved] OSS v4.1 and headphones question.

Then you said that OSS dynamicly change output of sound and i don't ossxmix to do that mannually , that's great now I will wait for my headphones

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Re: [Solved] OSS v4.1 and headphones question.

I don't know if it changes dynamically it's just that it plays to the speakers and headphones at the same time, so if you plug the headphones they will work. I don't know if for codecs (hardware) known to OSS it automatically mutes the speakers when you connect the headphones, because of this you may have to mute the speakers manually (this only applies if there isn't a hardware switch in the headphones plug).

Long story short, it will work and you will very easily understand how it works once you try it.

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