From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Colin Guthrie Subject: Re: [PATCH] Per Application Volume Control plugin for ALSA Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:21:21 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6934244F0 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:25:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P7RMO-0003qO-It for alsa-devel@alsa-project.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:25:04 +0200 Received: from cpc1-sgyl30-2-0-cust258.sgyl.cable.virginmedia.com ([94.173.13.3]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:25:04 +0200 Received: from gmane by cpc1-sgyl30-2-0-cust258.sgyl.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:25:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 'Twas brillig, and Takashi Iwai at 17/10/10 09:55 did gyre and gimble: > At Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:56:59 +0200, > James Huk wrote: >> >> Hello everybody. >> >> This is my first "post" here, so please be "gentle". >> >> I have created PAVC plugin for ALSA, it is based on COPY plugin, and >> use SOFTVOL plugin for sound output. As far as I can tell from current >> tests - It works perfectly, and it doesn't break compatibility with >> any apps I use (and PulseAudio does). So I was wondering - is there >> any chance this plugin would be added to the next official ALSA >> release? >> >> Here is the patch that enables it on current alsa-lib-1.0.23 >> (hopefully this mailing list is a good place to "post" this): > > Thanks for the patch. I looked over this post until now. > > The idea is interesting, and I thought of a similar thing before PA > gets popularized, too. > > Though, this implementation is a bit too hackish, especially the part > using pipe & co. If we have a more simpler and cleaner way for this, > it's worth including to the standard plugin, I think. I was thinking much the same thing when I read over this patch a few weeks ago. While it could be interesting to include this in alsa, I struggled to think of a use case where PA would not be more appropriate. Is there a specific use case targeted with this patch or is it really just a "proof of concept" demonstration that alsa can do this sans PA? Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]