Re: [xine-devel] Multi channel sound positioning.

[Siggi L. <si...@us...>]

Hi,

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Michael Roitzsch wrote:

[...]
> > 2) How does this map to a change in the mixer's volume slider?
>
> I guess these are linear and just scale the samples, but I am not sure.

Usually, those volume sliders work logarithmically (or rather
exponentially), so that changing the slider from 10 to 20 actually doubles
perceived loudness.

But then again, some drivers don't get this right and just scale samples
linearly...

Cheers,
	Siggi