[pulseaudio-discuss] Volume mismatch between pulseaudio and alsa

[Georg Chini]

On 09.05.20 06:08, limh at sunray.cn wrote:
> Hi
>
> I so sorry that I sent a lot of mails these days. Now I summarize all 
> the problems in this mail.
>
> Device: IMX6DL
> Kernel: 4.1.15
> Environment: pulseaudio 8.0, alsa( alsactl -v : 1.1.0)
>
> Reason:
> I used "mplayer" to play audio file in "system()" before (didn't open 
> pulseaudio).
> I want to optimized that so I use Qt function(based on pulseaudio).
> After I changed configuration to let the pulseaudio start when the 
> system startup and I play audio with Qt, I found the volume was 
> mismatch when I changed it in Qt function
>     (*QSoundEffect::setVolume(), range:0.0 ~ 1.0, if volume is bigger 
> than 0.1, the voice would be biggest)
>     So I used "mplayer -af volume=[-20, -10, 0, 10] XXX.wav" to test 
> again, then I found if the volume is bigger than -10, the voice would 
> be biggest.
>
>     I can attach the output of "paplay -v test.wav",but "aplay 
> -Dplughw:0,0 test.wav"  just has a short "bit" voice either pulseaudio 
> is opened or not.
>
> I hope you can give me a hand again
> PS: I also send a mail to alsa-user, you can follow it : 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/alsa/mailman/message/37005410/
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Best Regards
> Mihan

You should upgrade your software stack. Pulseaudio 8 is already 4 years 
old and the kernel is even older.

Regards
               Georg

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