Good point ... I may have some time to do this during the holidays, but
that may be a pain for users, because they have to install a library
(unless you guys include it)
And I have to ask, what is the convention on this mailing list ? reply
on top or bottom ?
Duncan Webb wrote:
> Cyril wrote:
>
>> Well, pyalsaaudio is still in beta (it's their second release)... maybe
>> for stability reasons we should wait to use it?
>>
>>
> There are lots of applications out there that are beta tagged and
> quite stable, unless a package is being actively developed then either
> it's just doesn't work or it's stable and the developer just doesn't
> have the confidence to say it's stable. pyalsaaudio seems that they
> make a release not so often 9 months so I would guess that it is stable.
>
> Have fun,
> Duncan
>
>> Duncan Webb wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Cyril wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I've been having a few problems with my new onboard soundcard
>>>> (sis7012),
>>>> because it has no hardware volume control available. As a
>>>> consequence of
>>>> this, the only way to set the volume in freevo (or anything else)
>>>> is to
>>>> use alsa's plugin dmix.
>>>> The way ossmixer was made couldn't work with my setup, so as a
>>>> result of
>>>> my frustration, I edited the ossmixer.py plugin to make it use
>>>> amixer to
>>>> set the volume.
>>>> Then, as it doesn't qualify as 'oss'mixer anymore, I changed its name
>>>> and cleaned up the code a bit.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if there's a library to control alsa devices with python,
>>>> so I only used os.system('amixer ...') calls to set the volume, but it
>>>> seems to work really well (even to control different channels
>>>> apprently).
>>>>
>>> ttp://www.wilstrup.net/pyalsaaudio/
>>>
>>>> aybe this plugin could find its place in the default plugins, i think
>>>> it can be useful for someone :)
>>>>
>>>> alsamixer.py is included, so ... do whatever you want with it :)
>>>>
>>> Cool, I'll give it a go, the oss mixer code is not too nice.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Duncan
>>>
>
>
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