Disable PulseAudio flat volumes to prevent it from pushing volume level to max

Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro at gnome.org
Tue Sep 22 02:10:20 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 17:46 -0700, Thomas Daede wrote:
> In the case of Youtube, you shouldn't be having any issues because
> Mozilla switched to using a soft mixer internal to Firefox:
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1046814
> 
> If you still have issues, you should report them upstream.
> 
> (note that this means all website volume sliders are designed to
> behave
> as a mixer, not as flat volumes)

Hi, sorry I forgot to say "in WebKit," which rather changes the meaning
of my email. The relevant developer is still trying to avoid mixing
streams internally. I do not understand it all very well, except the
problem goes away when flat volumes are disabled. :) PulseAudio is
going to offer some "browsers API" that will somehow allow fixing this
properly, but that does nothing to help with all the applications that
don't understand flat volumes, and in the meantime we are stuck with
the bug....

Cheers,

Michael


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