Middle-clicking on the Mixer panel item of a non-mute-able track

[Jarno Suni]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:20:20 +0100
Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:28:40 +0200
> Jarno Suni <j_suni at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:24:51 +0100
> > Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Oh, so I was happy? Right ... actually, its good to know that there
> > > is a way to check whether a mixer track supports muting or not. It
> > > doesn't really solve the problem though.
> > 
> > I checked my GStreamer IRC log, but I couldn't find what "known
> > issue at their end" you are possibly referring to, if that mute-able
> > flag thing is not it.
> 
> That's because you don't understand the things you're dealing with.
> There obviously is a flag GST_MIXER_TRACK_NO_MUTE since GStreamer
> 0.10.23 which one can use to determine whether a track supports muting
> or not. The problem is that it isn't really used anywhere. I checked
> the ALSA backend which is probably the most commonly used GstMixer
> provider and it doesn't use it. 
> 
> So even though that flag exists, it's not a reliable source for
> determining whether a track supports muting or not. 

So there is a way, but not a reliable way (due to incomplete backends).

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