[pulseaudio-discuss] Muting while changing ports

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 05:16:52PM +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 17:08 +0300, David Henningsson wrote:

> > 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?

The common failure mode there is that any change in volume introduces an
artefact but it's proportional to the change in volume so if you ramp
the volume up (rather than directly applying the new volume) you mask
the issue.