Pulseaudio support

[Brandon Snider]

I've been testing how g-m interacts with pulseaudio, and I've found an area where improvements could be made.

If i select pulseaudio as the output module, and check the gnome-sound applet, it seems that g-m's volume control is actually controlling the system volume at large. Totem's volume control is its own volume on the applications tab in gnome-sound-properties or whatever it's called now. If I mute g-m, my entire sound system is also muted. I think having g-m control the system volume goes against the idea of Pulseaudio in the first place, where each app has separate volume controls.

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Actually, I did it this way on purpose.

Kevin


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[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 12/02/2012 07:23 AM, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> On 12/01/2012 10:53 PM, Brandon Snider wrote:
>> I've been testing how g-m interacts with pulseaudio, and I've
>> found an area where improvements could be made.
>
>> If i select pulseaudio as the output module, and check the
>> gnome-sound applet, it seems that g-m's volume control is
>> actually controlling the system volume at large. Totem's volume
>> control is its own volume on the applications tab in
>> gnome-sound-properties or whatever it's called now. If I mute
>> g-m, my entire sound system is also muted. I think having g-m
>> control the system volume goes against the idea of Pulseaudio in
>> the first place, where each app has separate volume controls.
>
>
> Actually, I did it this way on purpose.
>
> Kevin
>
>
>

BTW,

You can disable this default behavior by enabling mplayer softvol
support in the Preferences

Kevin

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[Brandon Snider]

Just to update: 193/2378 fix g-m controlling the main volume. The paused video turns black issue is not fixed. However, regarding the softvol control, the audio properties app doesn't change its volume when g-m's volume control is changed, and vice versa. This is different than all other gnome apps I know of at this po int. Even VLC's volume control also changes the volume slider in audio-properties.

[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 12/15/2012 02:23 PM, Brandon Snider wrote:
> Just to update: 193/2378 fix g-m controlling the main volume. The
> paused video turns black issue is not fixed. However, regarding the
> softvol control, the audio properties app doesn't change its volume
> when g-m's volume control is changed, and vice versa. This is
> different than all other gnome apps I know of at this po int. Even
> VLC's volume control also changes the volume slider in
> audio-properties.

As for the paused video turns black, as I said before I can't
duplicate it here so it is very hard to figure why you are seeing
that. I am using mplayer, not mplayer2 so I am wondering if that is
the difference you are seeing.

As for the softvol control, I read your comments a couple of times,
and I am not sure that you understand what softvol is means. Softvol
is a feature of mplayer that has been made available in gnome-mplayer.

softvol means that the volume in gnome-mplayer is a percentage of the
currently selected audio devices volume. So if gnome-mplayer is in
softvol mode and gnome-mplayer volume is set to 50, that means it is
50% of the hardware devices current volume. The volumes are
independent and changes the volume on the toolbar does not change the
volume percentage (but may change the overall volume) in
gnome-mplayer. However, if you select a specific audio device in
gnome-mplayer and do not enable softvol. Those volumes should be
updated at the same time. When switching between softvol and
non-softvol mode you may need to restart gnome-mplayer.

Kevin


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[Brandon Snider]

I switched to mplayer and the issue remains. I normally use mplayer2 though.