[vdr] Re: Bug in VDR - yes- digital audio output

["Ray Glendenning" <ray.glendenning@hackery.demon.co.uk>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhard Walter Buchner" <rw.buchner@freenet.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 5:12 PM
Subject: [vdr] Bug in VDR - yes- digital audio output


> Hi Klaus,
>
> > So, if there are any serious bugs that you think should be fixed
> > before version 1.2.0, please report them in a separate message
> > with a descriptive subject.
>
> Will you be changing the way Mute is handled by VDR? As I wrote
> a while ago, you _cannot_  change the volume level of the SPDIF
> output, so your muting call doesn't work with digital output (as it
> simply remembers the original volume value and then sets it to
> zero, whilst demuting does the exact opposite). I never received
> any comments to my ML mail on this subject and at the moment
> I don't have time to continue working on it (sorry). Basically it
> was a problem that if you mute and then demute the volume via
> the DVB driver call, the sound becomes garbled on demuting. I'll
> have to admit I haven't tested the VDR version 1.1.30 on up (no
> time at the moment), so maybe you've already fixed it and I just
> haven't seen it ;o)) My findings at the time are in the thread
> called "Audio & Muting SPDIF"
>
>
> Greetz,
> Reinhard
>

This seems to be one of those political errors.  I personally think that no
volume actions (including mute) should change the output on the SPDIF since
you are handing the digital processing over to an external system, so should
you be handing the volume changing.

Cheers
Ray



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