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| author | Tofu Linden <tofu.linden@lindenlab.com> | 2010-02-22 14:15:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Tofu Linden <tofu.linden@lindenlab.com> | 2010-02-22 14:15:15 +0000 |
| commit | 235023d71122bce1fc3eadd90d8dc75cc5612f78 (patch) | |
| tree | cb6e0b0fe5630c29c9b216984f26ea34401c7daa /indra/media_plugins | |
| parent | df43c0e18b852fb1490cf9199b7766239cd2801c (diff) | |
document the linux_volume_catcher high-level design
Diffstat (limited to 'indra/media_plugins')
| -rw-r--r-- | indra/media_plugins/webkit/linux_volume_catcher.cpp | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/indra/media_plugins/webkit/linux_volume_catcher.cpp b/indra/media_plugins/webkit/linux_volume_catcher.cpp index 89cababdd8..024235717b 100644 --- a/indra/media_plugins/webkit/linux_volume_catcher.cpp +++ b/indra/media_plugins/webkit/linux_volume_catcher.cpp @@ -31,6 +31,15 @@ * @endcond */ +/* + The high-level design is as follows: + 1) Connect to the PulseAudio daemon + 2) Watch for the creation of new audio players connecting to the daemon (this includes ALSA clients running on the PulseAudio emulation layer, such as Flash plugins) + 3) Examine the audio player's PID to see if it belongs to our own process + 4) If so, tell PA to adjust the volume of that audio player ('sink input' in PA parlance) + 5) Keep a list of all living audio players that we care about, adjust the volumes of all of them when we get a new setVolume() call + */ + #include "linden_common.h" #include <glib.h> |