[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] volume control for arts audio output

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
>>There is ongoing work to automatically insert af_volume and changing
>>volume via software when the ao doesn't support it. I think this would
>>be the cleaner (although slower, but would you use arts if speed is
>>important?) solution.
>>Another possible solution would be to enable mixer.c to use OSS, ALSA
>>etc. mixers directly when speficied so on the commandline...
>>But it doesn't make sense if all aos now start duplicating the mixer
>>code from ao_alsa and ao_oss, I think.
>>
> 
> Actually the Audio Output shold set the volume by itself.
> There is no sense of changeing OSS mixer at ALSA output :)

Are you sure? There might be cases where it makes sense, and at least it 
would work. So actually output and mixing _could_ be separated. If it is 
worth the work is another question...

> We may try an common solution like x11_common, (oss_common?).

I'm against that, at least until we have finished the automatic 
volume-changing via af_volume.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger