From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lennart Poettering Subject: Re: Verifying mixer dB data/Invalid dB data from USB cards, especially Aureon 5.1 MkII Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:37:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20100218023742.GC23637@tango.0pointer.de> References: <20100216143200.GB25489@tango.0pointer.de> <20100216144047.GB10586@sirena.org.uk> <20100216154015.GA612@tango.0pointer.de> <20100216210703.GA18109@tango.0pointer.de> <20100216223938.GA23623@sirena.org.uk> <20100216224212.GA1486@tango.0pointer.de> <20100216233825.GB23623@sirena.org.uk> <20100216235658.GA6766@tango.0pointer.de> <4f3252891002171748tdcaa87n4d11d9880c0043e3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from tango.0pointer.de (tango.0pointer.de [85.214.72.216]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A82951038B2 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:38:07 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4f3252891002171748tdcaa87n4d11d9880c0043e3@mail.gmail.com> 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 On Thu, 18.02.10 09:48, Raymond Yau (superquad.vortex2@gmail.com) wrote: > From the viewpoint of user, they only care how easy to find the point which > is no software gain or software auttentation since software gain lead to > clipping We decided to expose software amplification in the UI, since it is actually a much requested feature, and I have used myself a couple of times. The primary use case is when you play a DVD (which very often has audio normalized to a very low volume) on weak speakers, such as laptop speakers. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4