Hello list, I have recently switched to a 5.1 Dolby Digital system and was surprised how nicely everything worked with ALSA. There is however one problem which I have - read through a lot of forums, but did not find a satisfying answer. I'm using my soundcards (Terratec Aureon 5.1 = C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738) optical output to interface my amplifier. The optical output logically always uses maximum output so no data is lost. This makes perfect sense to me. However, it is sometimes inconvenient. When my phone rings and I want to answer I'd like to make music almost completely silent by just some mouseclicks - not standing up and turning the volume down in the amplifier (no, it does not have a remote...). Some programs (like XMMS) support it, but I would like to have a more "general" solution which works with all programs in a unified way. So my question is: does ALSA support software volume control? The loss of quality (dynamics) is not so important to me in this case, I'd have it almost always on 100% - but would sometimes like to quickly reduce the volume. If it is supported, does it also work when playing back direct AC3 streams? If it can be done: how so? Thanks in advance for your help, Greetings, Johannes ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
