[pulseaudio-discuss] limits on maximum device volume?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 05.01.10 18:41, Tomasz Torcz (tomek at pipebreaker.pl) wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:29:24PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:04:37PM +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote:
> > > Now, in step 3 I clearly set the *sink* volume manually to 65%. Which
> > > pulse apparently ignored when the totem stream started. I don’t see how
> > > this fits into your described behaviour above. The net effect of all
> > > this is that the sink volume jumps around, pretty much on every new
> > > stream startup. Which is annoying as hell.
> > 
> >   I have another manifestation of this problem:
> > 
> > 1. Notification volume set to 100%
> > 2. Totem plays music, volume set to 60%.
> > 3. Gajim plays sound using canberra-gtk-play. Global volume
> > jumps to 100% while the sound is playing. So during the event
> > sound playback, Totem is playing at 100% (not 60% as it set).
> > 4. When canberra-gtk-play finishes, global volume drops to 60%.
> 
>   For archives sake, this is reported as #611:
> http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/611

Why this mail now? Since April we have made some bigger changes to the
flat volume logic so that the problem should not appear, as stream
volumes are always saved/restored relative to the sink volume only.

Lennart

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