On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 08:32:12PM +0200, Antti Harri wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > >Ahh, .. swap the speakers or wires?? > > I still don't understand why such a simple > thing isn't implemented in the software.. > Yeah yeah missing the daemon & other crap. >
well, it's not so simple. It's impossible to swap channels of any stream (eg. speaker output) in software. That's the hardware mixer's task and it cannot be emulated in software in a way that it could work with _all_ devices/setups. The reason is that if you swap your speakers, then you must swap all streams that are routed to the speakers stream. This could be done in software for the streams controlled by software, like the stream of played samples, but it cannot be done for all input streams (eg. the CD input). So swapping channels in software would mean more code for a partial only solution. -- Alexandre
