[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] forceable software volume control

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 06:50:24PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> On Friday 05 November 2004 18:44, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > This is incredibly stupid and broken. It's only a few dB, hardly
> > sufficient!
> > If you're going to work on fixing mplayer volume code, make EVERYTHING
> > work in dB and make the range essentially unlimited. (e.g. -100 dB to
> > 100 dB or something)
> 
> I can't claim to know much about audio and dB, but this thing works on 
> multiplication...
> its certainly got unlimited range in reducing volume, can go all the way to 
> 0%. and being able to multiply to 2 times greater is usually more than 
> enough... 10 times greater can already be considered unlimited.
> 
> Isn't this sufficient? Or am I misunderstanding your point?...

no, not at all. 2x greater is barely any change at all. it's the same
as a couple clicks on a soundsystem that goes by a decibel scale. 10x
is the very minimum cap that would be acceptible. but again it should
all be done in decibels since linear scales don't make sense to use
for signals.

rich