From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jan 13 20:41:16 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC397E7EF95 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emilia@disroot.org) Received: from disroot.org (bs-one.disroot.org [178.21.23.139]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8199F76BBB for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:41:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emilia@disroot.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by disroot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8042AC50 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:41:13 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=disroot.org; s=mail; t=1515876073; bh=YLqJrv+wvF2lfO8cEptvEnRY5xWU8K46aTpVdDM0nNs=; h=Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:References; b=ZnfnTB9lw4ONP9Ofjs3vlsa7DIwBHWJBjKa7zZEoRpJ8YyCrgjd8itSp43QGUMPw+ jh46d+SHJTcxsEu9mhggUq8ilvngbQek9bHCd+x0SasasNtxxq81xTg98p9CDuH3XR PfXubPt0Quj1VxEs0Xq7KzLfqS6ncycI1GgEHCN8= X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at disroot.org Received: from disroot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail01.disroot.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id aRrO_Q4ycouO for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:41:04 +0100 (CET) Mime-Version: 1.0 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=disroot.org; s=mail; t=1515876064; bh=YLqJrv+wvF2lfO8cEptvEnRY5xWU8K46aTpVdDM0nNs=; h=Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:References; b=ZSEHxM9x4hQm86r7UeDZYKWmLFL1NNMZAB/RE2cvjsGGehTrS8szo257S8j5I8YV2 sJfgVIafjRwVYyzM8BxTbMPK86V45fvcVZVDS/vIWWJ1H0TY0AMrkJsiKIxR7SMAcB vHfTdl4v/nnOyuaJCOzKsNtWirQd9hzib0hAgLNU= Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:41:04 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: "emilia" Message-ID: Subject: Re: Volume per channel (sound(4)) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <20180113125918.17e51713.freebsd@edvax.de> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:41:16 -0000 > If this refers to what I think it does, it is controlled=0A> by the app= lications themselves (e. g., have two instances=0A> of mplayer running: c= hanging volume on one doesn't change=0A> the volume on the other; then ad= ditionally start xmms, its=0A> volume can be changed independently from t= he others which=0A> keep their volume).=0A=0AThat just means that applica= tions can do volume control on their own, there really isn't that much=0A= you could do to prevent this in an OS, it would be fairly wierd to then a= dvertise it as a feature.=0AI understand it as I have controls for the st= reams somewhere where i can change their volume them=0Awithout the applic= ations cooperation, which for me is important since the application i hav= e been=0Atrying to mute did not have a mute button :)=0A=0Aregards,=0Aemi= lia