[mythtv-users] More on Audio over HDMI, Volume Control and AC3 Passthrough

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

2009/5/28 Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>:
> I do not believe you can get the volume control to work with passthrough.
>  Passthrough is just that, it passes the signal through and does not decode
> it thus it cannot change the volume.  In addition, you probably actually do
> not want Myth to change the volume as it would degrade the audio signal.

Yes you can with some mods.

My packages are built with this ticket: http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6279

It allows software volume control.
To activate it you set the mixer to be "software"