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? kindly, howard _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
