[pulseaudio-discuss] Per-app flat volume adjustment is highly unintuitive, if mathematically consistent.

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 27.05.09 14:28, Rémi Cardona (remi at gentoo.org) wrote:

>
> Colin Guthrie a écrit :
>> Essentially, whenever possible pulse is off-loading the scaling to the  
>> h/w, meaning less work in software = less load, and better quality 
>> audio due to the use of the full range of the DAC.
>
> Slightly off-topic: is there a way to keep the flat-volume behavior but  
> with 100% software volume handling ?

Nope. Not right now. Patches welcome ;-)

> Rationale : my intel_hda makes awful crackling sounds with some volume  
> combinations (especially when PCM is at 0%).

Sounds like a driver bug which should fixed at the driver level and not
worked around in PA.

Lennart

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