On Jan 20, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:21:45PM -0500, Howard P Holden wrote: >> 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? > > Tell Myth to control volume via the Master slider, not the PCM slider? > > Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> General, IIRC. > > -- > Jarod Wilson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
Thanks, but I tried it both ways. The master slider just controls the front speakers ("Wave"). I think it's an alsa thing, not a myth thing, but alsa just seems way beyond my grasp. Howard _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users