Re: [alsa-devel] Verifying mixer dB data/Invalid dB data from USB cards, especially Aureon 5.1 MkII

On Thu, 18.02.10 09:48, Raymond Yau (superquad.vortex2@gmail.com) wrote:

From the viewpoint of user, they only care how easy to find the point which is no software gain or software auttentation since software gain lead to clipping

We decided to expose software amplification in the UI, since it is actually a much requested feature, and I have used myself a couple of times.

The primary use case is when you play a DVD (which very often has audio normalized to a very low volume) on weak speakers, such as laptop speakers.

Lennart