Hi On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 20:02 +0200, Cosimo Cecchi wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 19:49 +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: >> >> > Why don't we remove gst-mixer, vu-meter, gnome-cd and cddb-slave2 >> > completely from gnome media 2.27. People that want to keep on building >> > them can use the 2.26 branch >> >> Not sure if somebody still uses gst-mixer (at least Fedora is using >> gnome-volume-control instead of it) but the README here [1] says at >> least the other three applications are disabled from the default build >> anyway, and I agree with you it's not worth the effort to patch them to >> use up-to-date platform technologies. >> > > I use it because of the simplest ever use case not yet covered by PA: > - PCM volume at 100% -> jerky sound > > PA assumes that I have PCM at 100% and I only need to adjust Master, > this is broken at least in my card (intel8x0) because if I were to put > PCM at 100% I would get quite jerky sound (imagine a batteries fm > radio). Right now PA only allows me to adjust Master, which is quite > useless for me. >
Give 0.9.16-test2 a try, it deals with the different mixer Master/PCM simultaneously, and it's fantastic, seriously. > So what I do is having Master at 100% and PCM around 70%, if laptop > speaker volume (hw control) is not strong enough I go to gst-mixer and > adjust PCM up a little bit, giving away quality for some loudness. > > Not having gst-mixer would mean either having PCM at 100% all the time > and getting jerky sound or having to go console or use some ugly thing > like gnome-alsamixer. If it's not hurting anyone, please keep gst-mixer > in the package. > For GNOME 3, and even before, this should be solved. There will be no good reason, I hope, to keep gst-mixer. That's why it could be moved to a different project. Especially if the GStreamer GstMixer is deprecated. regards, -- Marc-André Lureau _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
