On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:29:43PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > 5. Start totem. Sink volume jumps to 85% (and blows my eardrums). > > Totem?s stream volume is also 85%. > > Last time you apparently configured the totem volume to a factor that > was higher then the reference volume (i.e. > 1.0). Hence PA will > restore that this way, too. Ok, I understand this now, and I?ve succeeded in getting totem to playback at 135% (causing distortion, obviously). I also get how this makes a lot of sense, but I would change two things: 1. Make the sink volume in the UI *only* ever reflect the *reference* volume level, irrespective of what the actual playback level is as modified by the stream levels. That way it won?t ever move by itself which will reduce confusion a lot. That would of course mean that if a stream is playing at more than 100% of the reference level, then the physical hardware volume slider will be higher than the sink volume slider. I think that?s a lot less surprising than the current behaviour though. 2. Cap all stream volumes to 100%. I don?t want distorted sound, ever, period. If the user tries to set the relative volume such that the hardware can?t actually do it, then it?s just tough cheese. If a stream is playing at sink+20% and the user raises the sink to 100%, then the stream must not go over 100%. The same goes for restored stream levels. -- CJ van den Berg mailto:cj at vdbonline.com xmpp:cj at vdbonline.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20090427/bbcba26a/attachment.pgp>
