[pulseaudio-discuss] Muting while changing ports

[Lu Guanqun]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:16:52PM +0800, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 17:08 +0300, David Henningsson wrote:
> > On 09/21/2011 02:22 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > There exists audio hardware that produces annoying noise (snap, crackle,
> > > pop) when changing the alsa mixer settings, unless hw mute is used
> > > during the mixer changes. I'm planning to fix this by using hw mute
> > > during path activation, if the path provides hw mute. If anyone has
> > > objections or other comments, the best time to publish them would be
> > > now :)
> > 
> > Does not sound like anything I would like to enable by default - e g, 
> > what if hw mute introduces a click, and changing the volume does not?
> 
> If you think that such hardware is likely to exist, then I guess I'll
> have to make this configurable, and disable it by default. The path
> configuration files would get a new option for the [General] section:
> "mute-during-activation = yes/no". Does that sound ok to you?

I have the same concern with David, but as it's configurable, I'm OK
with it.

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guanqun