[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #774: allow overriding of hardware volume range (was: PA allows clients to easily set insanely high volumes)

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#774: allow overriding of hardware volume range
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  Reporter:  patrakov at gmail.com  |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  enhancement         |      Status:  new    
 Milestone:                      |   Component:  daemon 
Resolution:                      |    Keywords:         
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Comment(by lennart):

 Hmm, i disagree. If an app wants a certain volume it gets it. This has
 always been that way, and now is that way still.

 The problem is that mplayer and the volume control have the same rights.
 What you are asking for is that a volume control gets more rights than
 mplayer, but we really cannot distuingish here. Access control between
 clients of the same user cannot work.

 What we can definitely add though is maybe some udev based system that
 allows you to override the volume range the hardware supports.

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