[mythtv-users] SBLive!, Surround Sound Speakers, single volume control?

[Howard P Holden]

On Jan 20, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:21:45PM -0500, Howard P Holden wrote:
>> I have an SBLive 5.1 and Altec-Lansing GT-5051 speakers.
>>
>> If I try to control the volume of myhth music or mythtv or while
>> playing a dvd, only one set of speakers -- the rear or Surround, I
>> think -- is affected. The same is true if I use mplayer or aplay from
>> the command line.
>> Experimenting with alsamixer suggests that the PCM slider only
>> controls the "Wave Surround" output.
>>
>> I've been all over the archives, alsa.org, alsa.opensrc.org and
>> mythtv.info, and tried to understand .asoundrc. There's lots of stuff
>> about outputting to S/Pdif and AC3 passthrough that turns my brain to
>> alphabet soup.
>>
>> It seems that if I set my volumes in alsamixer, myth, alsa and
>> mplayer are all smart enough to play whatever media I ask in the
>> appropriate format. I just want to be able to turn the volume up/down
>> with a single slider (remote) or mute with a single button. I can do
>> that when I play music with "Music Player", which came with KDE. How
>> do I do it with alsa?
>
> Tell Myth to control volume via the Master slider, not the PCM slider?
>
> Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> General, IIRC.
>
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> Jarod Wilson
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Thanks, but I tried it both ways. The master slider just controls the  
front speakers ("Wave"). I think it's an alsa thing, not a myth  
thing, but alsa just seems way beyond my grasp.

Howard