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

[Arun Raghavan]

On 18 February 2014 21:41, Tanu Kaskinen <tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 21:26 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Ok, then I'll ask again: what did you mean by "associating multiple
> volume controls with a single device"?

I was referring to Alexander's mail about potentially controlling eq
and AGC on devices via volume control mechanisms.

> As for the N9 setup: there are two volume classes: "call" and "other".
> There are 2 * n_output_devices volume controls, one for each combination
> of a volume class and an output device.

Perhaps we can chat about how the volume control works on the N9
(since the phones I've worked with usually have a single output device
for normal playback, and some special sauce for phone calls). Unless
it's relevant to this discussion, in which case I'm curious to know
whether it somehow makes more sense to have two volumes per device,
rather than have policy store a per-device-class volume independently.

-- Arun