On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 09:09:59AM -0600, joshua stein wrote: > On Fri, 08 Mar 2019 at 10:46:24 +0200, Mihai Popescu wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone observe some sound volume reduction when chromium is > > displaying some specific tabs? > > > > I am using mpv in xterm with some internet radio, when I point > > chromium to some tabs (with or without multimedia in them, I can't > > figure out for the moment) the sound volume is dropping a little but > > noticeable and it is coming back to normal when I close chromium or > > the offending tabs. > > That is probably sndiod(8) doing its default behavior of trying to > avoid clipping by reducing volume when multiple things are playing. > See the -w option in the sndiod man page.
I think there's possibly something slightly off in chromium's routines, because the drop-off happens BEFORE you even start any audio, thus pointing to chromium always initializing the audio output even if it's not going to play anything... ... which is a minor peeve when you're actually using audio for other things.
