[mythtv-users] .23 Sound Issues............Please God shoot me now!!

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On 3 June 2010 14:14, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had always believed (I think based on what i had read on this list)
> that software control of digital streams was a Bad Thing because it
> involved resampling the nice digital data that some well meaning
> studio had crafted for your maximum viewing/listening pleasure.

Which is just what pulse would be doing too..
I mentioned the software mixer as an alternative to having to use pulse...

>
> The perceived wisdom seemed to be to leave it untouched and pass it
> through to your amp, and deal with the volume there.
>
> Am I wrong? Was I right once but something has changed?

no, you are right.. Changing the volume on the pre-amp side of things
is much better.
But not everyone want to do that as seen above.

>
> oh, and is the 'software' mixer a myth thing or an alsa thing?

myth

>
> Is there anything special I need to do to enable it?
You go in the settings where you set the volume and mixer, and choose
"software" as the mixer device, that's all you have to do.