[pulseaudio-discuss] Muting while changing ports

[Maarten Bosmans]

2011/9/22 Mark Brown <broonie at sirena.org.uk>:
> 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.

Wouldn't that apply even more so to muting the channel, as that is the
largest volume change possible?

Maarten