Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and David Henningsson at 09/05/12 02:36 did gyre and > gimble: >> 2) +11dB The people within the discussion - including myself - seem to >> mostly agree that for the sound settings UI, it makes most sense to >> remove the possibilty to set more than 0dB output for the device >> volume, but instead allow it for stream volumes. The argument is that >> the most common use case for this is that you're listening to DVD/flash >> movies, where the particular application would be what's bothering you. >> Therefore it would make more sense to boost the application, rather >> than the device. > > Interesting idea. However, as you guys do not use flat volumes, how can > a volume >0dB for a stream ever make sense if the system volume is at > -30dB? It makes perfect sense. If I temporarily boosted a certain stream volume because the recording is too quiet, I want the sound to be clipped in software if it suddenly becomes loud again, instead of pulseaudio reproducing the now-too-loud sound. I.e. it is a perfect workaround for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ show_bug.cgi?id=46466 -- Alexander E. Patrakov
