Re: Re: Re: SB Live! PCM control

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 22:35 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I think it is unwise to implement a Master volume control for the SBLive 
> at this time. We had to remove it some time ago, and it can be 
> implemented in a better way that in the DSP code.
> 

Really?  This is certainly news to me.  Why did you remove it?  What's
this "better way" you speak of?  And what's wrong with doing it in the
DSP?

I wish you had said something sooner.  Users have been complaining
vociferously about this as long as I have been involved with ALSA (not
as long as some people, but long enough ;-).

Personally I never thought this was a big deal.  I don't use the Audigy
master volume anyway, I just adjust the volume inside the app.  It seems
broken to me for a program like mplayer to grab the master volume
control anyway.  Shouldn't it just attenuate the PCM samples it's
generating?

Lee



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