On Mon, 27.04.09 15:56, CJ van den Berg (cj at vdbonline.com) wrote: > > > If the user tries to set the relative volume such that the hardware > > > can?t actually do it, then it?s just tough cheese. If a stream is > > > playing at sink+20% and the user raises the sink to 100%, then the stream > > > must not go over 100%. The same goes for restored stream levels. > > > > My plan is actually to do dynamic range compression when amplifying > > digitally. That should minimize artifacts. > > Ewwww, compression is pretty nasty. Is hardware that needs digital > amplification really that common? I?ve never had any digital audio > device like that. In fact, most are more likely to damage your hearing > than be too quiet! Sure, compression is nasty. But still better then clipping. And I think you'll have the problem on quite a few BT headphones. I at least do on both my a2dp headphones with some movies. And then there are some laptops with internal speakers where this might actually apply, too. I mean, it doesn't just depend on the hardware, it also depends on the media you play. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
