[MPlayer-users] Volume Control Suggestion

[Martin Maciaszek]

--On Montag, 31. Dezember 2001 09:57 +0100 Attila Kinali <kinali at gmx.net> 
wrote:
> You can change either the master volume or the PCM volume (RTFM for the
> keys), but both are systemwide settings (as they are on the soundcard
> itself). Everything else would require that mplayer does it itself by
> calculating and you dont want that.

This is probably a naive question, but why? Is scaling the audio-output 
that cpu intensive?

Cheers
Martin