Re: Verifying mixer dB data/Invalid dB data from USB cards, especially Aureon 5.1 MkII

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On Tue, 16.02.10 09:08, Clemens Ladisch (clemens@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> 
> Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > Getting back to the invalid dB data from the USB cards: the question
> > is whether the USB descriptor data is badly parsed, and the dB
> > mismatch hence systematic for USB cards,
> 
> USB descriptors use units of 1/256th dB, while ALSA uses 1/100th dB.
> When the level is computed from the minimum plus a multiple of the step
> size, rounding errors add up considerately.
> 
> ALSA 1.0.21 (kernel 2.6.32) added a different TLV type that reports the
> range with the min/max values to minimize those rounding errors.

I am really sure that the discrepancy I measure with the Aureon is way
beyond rounding errors.

Lennart

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