Re: [RFC] Standard for Multichannel Mixer Control Names

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At Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:22:21 +0100,
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:38:47PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > The master PCM volume control
> > 	PCM
> > 
> > The PCM surround volume controls (optional)
> > 	PCM Front
> > 	PCM Surround
> > 	PCM Center
> > 	PCM LFE
> > 	PCM Side
> 
> 
> Could be just me, but whenever see a mixer control named "PCM" I have 
> to think about what it could be. "PCM" refers to a signal format, not
> to a source or destination of audio data. It's a complete misnomer for
> a mixer control. 

Agreed.  (In Windows, it's usually called "Wave" - that's not quite
intuitive, though :)

But renaming this is indeed a big change because the current apps /
desktop systems assume these control names.  It was a bad decision,
which we have to live with...


Takashi

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