[pulseaudio-discuss] Muting while changing ports

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:33:15PM +0200, Maarten Bosmans wrote:
> 2011/9/22 Mark Brown <broonie at sirena.org.uk>:
> >> 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?

That would be what I'm saying, yes.  Note the context...