On February 7, 2019 4:21:05 PM PST, liebrecht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >I found an interesting reason why this 100% Volume policy in >pavucontrol >is actually detrimental. > >The sound is very low with the pavucontrol 100% and my keyboard buttons > >cannot go past that as that is how pavu controls it. > >Its fair, but as soon as I start QEMU, (which uses pulseaudio as sound) > >with a windows virtual machine something peculiar happens. > >I p-lay music on the linux machine which has nothing to do with >anything >from QEMU. >Once windows boots up in QEMU, sometimes with no config on my side, >QEMU >pushes the volume omn Linux up way past the maximum of pavucontrol to >deafening levels. >Jeeziz.! > >Why this QEMU raising of Linux host volume happens is a mystery to me. > >Please read this carefully and consider: >It is better to have pulseaudio 100% at system absolutely maximum >volume >so that the user can set volume down. >Since you implemented this 100% restriction that is way too low volume, > >other applications like QEMU seemingly finds a way to go to the real >maximum which makes your low volume policy severely detrimental. > >This policy forces the user to set the hardware output device at almost > >maximum, w2hich creates a lot of trouvble if another application finds >a >way around this silly limit and blasts your ears out, as Qemu and >windows does. >Qemu just willy nilly turns up the linux output volume to its correct >maximum way way past the imho dangerous and deceptive pavu lower >limit. > >Give the user full control so they can set their own maximum limit. >These non-working and bypassable synthetic limits creates more damage >than they intend to prevent. There is a setting to disable flat volumes, which is probably what you want. See the "flat-volumes" option: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#daemon.conf --Sean _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
