Bug#697121: vlc: sudden very loud sound to cause hearing demage

2014-06-09 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont r...@remlab.net wrote: Le vendredi 6 juin 2014, 19:32:30 Felipe Sateler a écrit : Unfortunately, VLC cannot get the PulseAudio volume until after audio playback starts. There is no way to fix this on VLC side: there is no API in libpulse

Bug#697121: vlc: sudden very loud sound to cause hearing demage

2014-06-09 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le lundi 9 juin 2014, 14:51:53 Felipe Sateler a écrit : OK, thanks for explaining. I see that vlc creates the stream when it starts playback and destroys it when stopped (although not pause). This leaves the following options: 1. Pulseaudio could add a function to get the volume an

Bug#697121: vlc: sudden very loud sound to cause hearing demage

2014-06-09 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont r...@remlab.net wrote: Le lundi 9 juin 2014, 14:51:53 Felipe Sateler a écrit : OK, thanks for explaining. I see that vlc creates the stream when it starts playback and destroys it when stopped (although not pause). This leaves the following

Bug#697121: vlc: sudden very loud sound to cause hearing demage

2014-06-09 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le lundi 9 juin 2014, 15:56:44 Felipe Sateler a écrit : But isn't an uncorked stream an inactive stream? I'm not sure of what you mean by that. I never wrote anything about inactive streams. Inactive sessions is a WASAPI notion, that the -in that respect inferior- PulseAudio design lacks.

Bug#697121: vlc: sudden very loud sound to cause hearing demage

2014-06-06 Thread Felipe Sateler
Control: tags -1 = moreinfo On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 10:58:04PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: reassign 697121 libpulse0 tags 697121 + upstream thanks Le mardi 1 janvier 2013 17:22:57, fermat a écrit : It is a bug of pulseaudio because it use a default setting that applications don't

Bug#697121: vlc: sudden very loud sound to cause hearing demage

2014-06-06 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
Le vendredi 6 juin 2014, 19:32:30 Felipe Sateler a écrit : Unfortunately, VLC cannot get the PulseAudio volume until after audio playback starts. There is no way to fix this on VLC side: there is no API in libpulse to get the volume of an application until after a sink input/stream is

Bug#697121: vlc: sudden very loud sound to cause hearing demage

2013-02-05 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
reassign 697121 libpulse0 tags 697121 + upstream thanks Le mardi 1 janvier 2013 17:22:57, fermat a écrit : It is a bug of pulseaudio because it use a default setting that applications don't have independent volume control. otherwise the volume whill not grow to 147% but rather 20%*147% =

Bug#697121: vlc: sudden very loud sound to cause hearing demage

2013-01-01 Thread fermat
Package: vlc Version: 2.0.3-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I use a little ear-phone on my computer, and adjust the system volume to about 20%, which is comfortable. I open the VLC player and want to adjust the volume a little higher. VLC displays the current volume is 100%, so I adjust