[mythtv-users] ALSA volume mixer integration

[Christopher Kerr]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:25 PM, E. Westbrook
<mythtv-users at westbrook.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 20:05, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> you're not using ALSA in a standard way so you will always have issues.
>
> How so?  I understood this to be a perfectly standard use of ALSA.  At
> least, every other audio application I run seems to think so.
>
>>
>> ALSA wasn't designed to allow multiple applications access the audio
>> card at the same time.
>
> I wouldn't know about the project's intentions, but the fact that hooks
> exist for multiple applications being notified of volume level changes would
> at the least seem to me to suggest otherwise.
>
>> You can't expect myth to behave like you want, when there's no reason
>> it should.
>
> Without any disrespect, I am confused why you would say that, when every
> other audio app I use does it exactly like I believe it should.  Surely they
> are not all renegades, are they?
>
>>
>> If using ALSA, myth expects it to be the only application
>> accessing the audio card (and mixer)
>
> I acknowledged myth's understandable myopia in this regard in my first
> message in this thread.  But I do thank you very much for acknowledging it,
> as well as for any help!

In your very first post, you note that:

"having set up ALSA's default pcm to a dmix"

This is a non-standard use of ALSA - as JYA rightly points out, it's
really the domain of PulseAudio. I think that's what he's getting at.

- Chris