[pulseaudio-discuss] flat volumes for privileged apps

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

20.10.2015 12:37, Wim Taymans wrote:
> Removing the flat volume from pulseaudio and moving it into the mixer would
> make it hard to impossible to implement the following items:
>
> 1) give some apps flat volumes and others not.

I agree completely that it would become impossible. However, I was under 
the impression that the validity of this use case is disputable.

> 2) raise the volume of just one stream in the mixer without affecting
> others. Since the mixer is not running inside pulseaudio, it can't
> atomically update both the master volume and the volumes of all other
> streams

Indeed, the update becomes non-atomic. This is a valid objection.

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Alexander E. Patrakov