[Kwintv] TV volume control

[Dirk Ziegelmeier]

On Sunday 13 March 2005 04:55, Bharat Reddy wrote:
> I have been having problems with tv volume control of
> my BT878 for as long as I have been using kwintv. I
> use to do what the faqs suggested and compile the
> module in but recently since I have been using the
> externally made alsa drivers due to better support,
> and I have been unable to compile that driver into my
> kernel any more due to alsa and oss conflicts. Thus I
> have been out of luck.
>
> Programs like xawtv has had support for this simple
> feature of directly controlling the volume of my tv
> card directly for a while and therefore was forced to
> use it. However I have found the temp solution from
> the gentoo forums
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-187799-highlight-control+tvaudio+vol+v
>olume.html .
>
> I just run v4lctl -c /dev/video0 setattr 'volume'
> 55000 in during startup and it works fine. However I'm
> not able to change the volume unless I rerun the
> command again with a different value.
>
> This is a key feature for those of us who want use
> this program and a great new feature to have.
OK, I implemented something that should do the trick. Can you compile the 
latest CVS version (there is a new snapshot available) and test it?

Dirk