NAME

       oss_imux - Input Muplexer audio driver.

DESCRIPTION

       IMUX  is  a  virtual recording engine that permits up to 8 audio recording applications to
       run at the same time. Generally most soundcards permit only a single recording application
       to  record  the  input  source  (via  mic,  line  or  CD).  With IMUX, you can use up to 8
       recording applications to record the same source in different  sample  rates,  bits/sample
       and channels (mono/stereo).  IMUX does all the rate and format conversion in software. The
       applications think that they are actually getting  data  from  the  physical  device.  For
       instance,  if you want to record the input from a CDROM in .wav format at 48Khz/8/Mono and
       at the same time you want to record the same stream in  .mp3  format  in  44.1Khz  16  bit
       stereo,  with  IMUX, you can start the wave recording application on the first IMUX device
       and start the MP3 encoder on the  second  IMUX  device  and  both  applications  will  run
       simultaneously thinking that they are getting data from the physical soundcard.

CONFIGURATION

       To add the IMUX driver you first need to ensure that there is a physical soundcard present
       and then you can run ossdetect -i to add it. You may want to select  a  master  device  by
       setting  imux_masterdev,  but  the  autodetection should provide a good default. After OSS
       restart, imux should be available.

USAGE

       Connect an input source to the soundcard's line-in jack. Using the Mixer app  like  ossmix
       (or  any  OSS compliant mixer) set the recording source to Line-In (eg ossmix line.rec ON)
       Now you can start recording the input in multiple formats and at different  sample  rates.
       The simplest example is:

               ossrecord -s48000 -b16 -c2 -d/dev/oss/oss_imux0/pcmin0 test1.wav &
               ossrecord -s8000 -b8 -d/dev/oss/oss_imux0/pcmin0 test2.wav &

       After  a  few  minutes  of recording you can stop them by placing the command in forground
       mode (type fg %1 or fg %2) and press ^c to stop.

       You now have two wav format files. test1.wav is a 48KHz 16bit stereo file and test2.wav is
       a 8Khz 8bit Mono file.

       You can now playback the files as follows:

       •  ossplay -v test1.wav and it should show you that the file is indeed 48Khz 16bit stereo.

       •  ossplay -v test2.wav - you should see that this file is indeed a 8Khz 8bit mono file.

       What  you  have  essentially  accomplished  is  recording  a  single input stream into two
       different formats at the same time.

       You can now extend this analogy to record the input in mp3  format  and  RealAudio  format
       simultaneously.

       The  IMUX control panel can be displayed by typing ossxmix -d<imux mixer number> (for e.g.
       in the above example, IMUX mixer is #2 so we type ossxmix -d2

       There are record level control sliders for each input channel and it  will  show  activity
       when a recording program is active on a particular channel.

OPTIONS

       •  imux_masterdev:  Selects which physical device to use as the Master device for the IMUX
          driver.  Values: -1: automatically selected by OSS, 1-N:  Audio  device  index  of  the
          master device (as reported by ossinfo -a), Default: -1.

       •  imux_rate:  Specifies  what is the base sampling rate used by the imux driver.  Values:
          5000-96000 Default: 48000

       •  imux_devices: Specifies number of Input Multiplexer devices  to  setup.   Values:  2-48
          Default: 5

FILES

       /etc/oss4/conf/oss_imux.conf Device configuration file

AUTHOR

       4Front Technologies

                                         03 December 2013                             oss_imux(7)