[pulseaudio-discuss] RFC: New volume functionality for PulseAudio

[Arun Raghavan]

On 17 February 2014 23:47, Tanu Kaskinen <tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 12:46 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
>> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 16:06 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
>> > > I'm not completely clear what you're trying to achieve with volume
>> > > control objects right now - are you just trying to fix the balance
>> > > problem, or ...? I see the point you're making about the potential
>> > > applicability of associating multiple volume controls with a single
>> > > device, but I'd like to understand what you'll be solving with the
>> > > patch set you'd be submitting with this infrastructure.
>
> <snip>
>
>> Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "associating multiple volume
>> controls with a single device"? I don't remember mentioning multiple
>> volume controls per device, unless you mean the idea of having a debug
>> mode with access to alsa mixer volume elements etc.
>
> Never mind, I now realized that you probably referred to the N9 volume
> model, where each output device has two volumes: "call" and "everything
> else".

I'd have thought that would be handled by volume classes, but perhaps
I'm not following what the N9 is doing.

-- Arun