[nas] [PATCH] consistent gain setting in voxware server

[Jon Trulson]

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Paul Fox wrote:

> erik wrote:
> > in the sound driver. Paul suggested a generic solution to this (and any
> > similar) problem should be implemented (if I understand him properly).
>
> yes, but i was being very pie-in-the-sky.  don't take my wishes too
> seriously. :-)  i spoke because there's a similar (non-NAS related)
> problem on laptops, where the channel of the mixer labelled "master"
> may not be the master volume at all -- sometimes it's some other channel,
> and you have to know that when playing with your mixer programs.
> (i can't remember a specific example right now.) so it seems that
> there should be more configurability at several levels.
>

         NAS only modifies the PCM volume, the 'master' volume is
         always left alone... What does chaning the 'volume' in nas
         change on your device?

         I beginning the think that the whole mixer detect/init logic
         needs some major overhaul...

> (another place i'd like configurability:  the computer that drives my
> stereo has sound hardware that distorts if the master volume is
> set to above 80 or so.  i'd love to be able to tell either the alsa
> driver or the nas server that volume control requests should all be
> scaled by 80%, so that '100' at the NAS client translates into 80 at
> the sound hardware.  and now that i've described the problem in
> such simple terms, maybe i'll get around to implementing it.  :-)
>

         As Erik mentioned earlier, this could probably be implemented
         without too much difficulty.

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