[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] Documentation of known misuse of PulseAudio API

Raymond Yau superquad.vortex2 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 20 23:10:41 PST 2013


> This is the only bit that I'd change in some way:
>
> > + * is too high. With flat volumes disabled (the default in Ubuntu), it
> means
> > + * the maximum hardware volume attenuated by the sink volume. In most
> cases,
> > + * this is appropriate.
>
> I think "the maximum hardware volume attenuated by the sink volume" is a
> bit hard to understand wording. Perhaps this would be better: "With flat
> volumes disabled (the default in Ubuntu), the sink input volume is
> relative to the sink volume, so 100% sink input volume means that the
> sink input is played at the current sink volume level."
>
>
Do pulseaudio expect max. value of all hardware playback volume controls
are at 0dB ( just attentuation and no gain ) ?

since it is using floating point 0.0 <--> 1.0 for (0% to 100%)

How about capture volume as most mic inputs have boost (gain) ?
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