Hi, Regarding this topic, I recall reading this article from pulseaudio guys a few weeks ago and I found it quite interesting: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/Developer/Clients/WritingVolumeControlUIs/
Pau Espin Pedrol mail/jabber: pespin.s...@gmail.com http://blog.espeweb.net 2015-06-13 8:37 GMT+02:00 Massimo Maiurana <maiur...@gmail.com>: > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 13/06/2015 alle 05:01: > > On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 13:59:07 +0200 Massimo Maiurana <maiur...@gmail.com> > said: > > > >> I've rebuilt E just yesterday and now I have the new pulse mixer instead > >> of the old alsa. Great! :) > >> > >> But why is it limited to 100% of the availble volume? Through > >> pavucontrol I can raise up the output volume until 153%, which is useful > >> for me as I'm on a laptopo with tiny speakers, it would be awesome if I > >> could do the same thing from Emix. > > > > ugh... that requires special handling as generally going over 100% leads > to > > clipping of audio which leads to it sounding "harsh" and thus what you > want is > > a slider that stops at 100% and has "resistance" to drag it beyond 100% > and > > above... i'm not even sure the emix backend allows > 100... so would > have to > > check. maybe some advanced option somewhere like "boost" that multiplies > the > > volume submitted to pulse by 2x or something... that actually makes more > sense > > for you i think. > > If 153% is not a pavucontrol guess but a driver limit, and I think it is > likely given as it has an odd value, a "boost" option could simply > show/hide the slider part above 100%. Anyway, even a multipler could > have sense, maybe 1.5x would be enough. Pavucontrol handles it with that > slider resistance at 100% and I'm fine with it. > > As for dirty sound, well, I usally use earphones to listen to music and > movies and in that case 100% is quite enough, but it happens even that I > have to show something like a youtube video to my neighbors and laptop > speakers at 100% are unuseful. More than a dirty sound :) > > -- > Massimo Maiurana > Ragusa (RG) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
