Re: Ideas for the softvol plugin

["Ingo Müller" <alsa@ingomueller.net>]

Hi!

Thanks for the answer!

Takashi Iwai schrieb:
> At Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:54:55 +0100,
> Ingo Müller wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have some ideas about features that could be added to the softvol
>> plugin, that I want to discuss with you.
>>
>> 1) A mute/unmute function. I think this is the most easy job.
> 
> Likely.
> 
>> 2) Ability to replace an existing control. I have no idea whether it is
>> possible to realize this, but this would be very usefull (see below).
> 
> Well, my idea is to overwrap the existing mixer elements with the new
> user-space elements instead of replacing the kernel space entries.
> This would be a plugin for ctl interface.

I'm not sure whether I understand it right. But that doesn't matter.
Anything that lets the master volume control control the master volume
is fine :-)

> 
>> 3) Multi channel capabilities. This is just a vague idea. The aim is to
>> be able to control e.g. front, rear and center/lfe channels seperately
>> from each other. Maybe like this:
>>
[...]
> 
> Hm, this wouldn't be too hard, too...

I'd really love if some of those ideas would be implemented.
Unfortunately, I really can't do it myself. What I can do and sure will
is testing. So if anyone needs a tester for one of those things, here I
am :-)

Greets, Ingo

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