At Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:43:08 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > > 2009/6/19 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>: > > > > The alsamixer view isn't the issue I'm concerned. > > These spontaneous controls should be IFACE_PCM in the first place. > > They shouldn't be IFACE_MIXER. For example, IEC958 status bits can be > > associated to a dedicated PCM substream. > > > Would an option could be to stream the IEC958 status bits with the PCM stream? > I.e. As an extra channel of the PCM multichannel stream. I don't buy it because the status bits don't need resend at each time. And for compatibility reason, this is a huge gap. If any, we have already IEC958 raw subframe support that embeds the status bits... > Another option could be to stream the gain control values with the PCM stream. > I.e. Instead of attributes attached to the PCM, stream those > attributes with the PCM stream. Hrm how can it be done? Could you elaborate? Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
