Bug 352538

Summary:	Notification volume gets raised to 100% on any event
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] phonon-backend-vlc	Reporter:	Arkady Rost <arkrost>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Harald Sitter <sitter>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	asturm, bcooksley, fabo, jb, myriam, tnemeth, wlt-ml, xgdgsc
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.8.2
Target Milestone:	0.9
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Arkady Rost 2015-09-10 22:47:46 UTC

When using the phonon-backend-vlc with PulseAudio, the notication volume gets always reset to 100% after any notification event.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open settings manager
2. Change anything
3. Switch to next tab without applying changes (so the notification event is fired)

Actual Results:  
Volume is set to 100%.

Expected Results:  
Volume level mustn't be changed.

It's practically not possible to use headset. Every notification makes me deaf.

Comment 1 GSC 2015-09-22 16:58:01 UTC

Same here with archlinux, plasma-desktop 5.4.1-2. This is a serious regression that is similar to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324975. Currently workaround is to disable PA's flat volume feature.

Comment 2 GSC 2015-09-22 17:07:27 UTC

dups https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345651, seems upstream.

Comment 3 tnemeth 2015-10-04 11:25:37 UTC

I have the same problem here. How to we work around that, disabling PA's flat volume (if it really works) ?

Comment 4 tnemeth 2015-10-04 11:27:06 UTC

(In reply to tnemeth from comment #3)
> I have the same problem here. How to we work around that, disabling PA's
> flat volume (if it really works) ?

    Stupid of me. /etc/pulse/daemon.conf

Comment 5 William L. Thomson Jr. 2016-02-07 21:27:30 UTC

Also seeing funkiness with volume in juk. Starts out loud, lower volume, next is quite. Then if I stop juk or it changes tracks at some point reverts back to full volume. Volume in kmix is different than show in plasma-pa.

Comment 6 Harald Sitter 2016-02-08 13:29:49 UTC

(In reply to wlt from comment #5)
> Also seeing funkiness with volume in juk. Starts out loud, lower volume,
> next is quite. Then if I stop juk or it changes tracks at some point reverts
> back to full volume. Volume in kmix is different than show in plasma-pa.

This could be a different problem on account of showing different data between kmix and plasma-pa. The two do however calculate percentages differently, so it is hard to say for sure. If you are using the Phonon VLC backend I am however pretty confident that this is also a fallout from Bug #345651.

Marking this bug as duplicate since the original issue described is a result of the aforementioned bug. FTR: we will hopefully have a solution for this with VLC 2.3

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 345651 ***