[pulseaudio-discuss] Volume algorithm

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Tarantism at 07/03/11 20:19 did gyre and gimble:
>>> > > The volume system on Maemo is a bit peculiar. The system volume doesn't
>>> > > touch any sink volumes (except with bluetooth in HSP/HFP mode), all
>>> > > volume control is done by adjusting stream volumes. If you want to use
>>> > > the same volume as eg. the music player, set the media.role property of
>>> > > the sink input to "x-maemo". That's a special role for pretty much
>>> > > everything else than phone and event sound streams.
>> > That figures. Thanks very much!
> And works nicely. I won't say how long my dbus volume monitor class
> work-around took to get working ... oh well.

Ahh but the lessons learned are invaluable :)

We've all been there! The value cannot be measured in lines of code of
the final solution :)

Col

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