[Openal-devel] Volume Control extension

[Guilherme Balena Versiani]

Hello all,

As promised, for those who really needs control over the system's mixer, 
the project OpenAL mixer was launched and the first working version for 
Windows is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openalmixer/. I 
will work on documentation of its usage, besides the test project shows 
everything that is needed to know. It was based on PortMixer project 
made for PortAudio (thanks to Dominic Mazzoni at al), but it extends its 
functions and work for one-way audio channel (for instance only for 
audio rendering or audio capture). The selection of the right mixer is 
based on current device name; if it matches any of current available 
wave device, it is used; else, the default wave device is used instead.

This way, the "Generic Hardware" and "Generic Software" will use the 
default wave device (input or output). For the "network devices" you 
mentioned, I assume that the implementor knows what he/she is doing...

I won't discuss if this is important or not for OpenAL itself; the time, 
and people (library users), will show us. Anyway, we need to pay 
attention to Windows 7 movements towards to audio device routing 
settings (http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/other/windows-7/p32.png).

Best regards,

Guilherme Balena Versiani.