On Wed, 27 May 2009, Lennart Poettering wrote: > You are misunderstanding the flat volume logic. Probably. But since attenuator knobs don't tweak each other (rather I am in control), I think you can read what I wrote as arguing against flat volume logic, on the grounds of intuitive behaviour. Finn > In flat vol the hardware volume is always configured to the *maxmimum* > of all stream volumes. And if the streams have different volumes then > some of them will be attenuated digitally, *nothing* will be amplified > digitally. > > So, if someone wants playback of exactly one stream a bit louder, then > this will have the effect that the output device volume will be > increased and digital attenuation happens for all other streams. > > Which seems to be exactly hat you are asking for, which in turn makes me > wonder what your mail is actually about? > > Lennart > >
