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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: ALSA / emu10k1 / SPDIF / surround?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:23:56 -0400
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On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 02:04 +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 19:08 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > I guess you already looked at Documentation/SB-Live-mixer.txt?
> 
> Sure I have, but I don't think this documentation is correct:
> 
> "Wave (Surround|Center|LFE) Playback Volume" apparently do some kind of
> stereo upmixing. I guess that is why I have seen these controls going to
> zero when using 6 channel output.

Right.  If you play a stereo PCM these control the level that goes to
the other 4 channels.  So when using 6 channel output they go to zero.

Rather than posting your own docs on the web, how about submitting a
patch to correct the documentation?

Lee



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