Re:PulseAudio under the hood
by jancsika on Friday September 22, 2017 @06:25PM
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At the same time, all other apps are at a level that won't cause painful audio to hit your ears.
If you trust VLC and you trust the video file you're watching, then turn the master audio back up during the loud "Universal Pictures" intro or whatever is an equivalent introductory sound at the beginning of the movie you're about to watch.
On my chromebook, there are two volume buttons and one mute button that are by far the most convenient way to adjust (master) audio for such a situation. So you turn down for random browsing and turn up for watching movies or whatever.
Btw-- those are almost certainly the controls someone would use to turn down or mute the sound of that horrible website audio listed above. In such a case the fact that pulse can give you an app volume for Chrome doesn't help anything-- for example, the user who adjusted Pulse app volume down to avoid pain will need to adjust it back up when watching a movie on Youtube for the same reason you mentioned. But they can't adjust the app volume with the keyboard controls. So to make use of that feature forces a more complicated UI that takes longer to use.
If you trust VLC and you trust the video file you're watching, then turn the master audio back up during the loud "Universal Pictures" intro or whatever is an equivalent introductory sound at the beginning of the movie you're about to watch.
On my chromebook, there are two volume buttons and one mute button that are by far the most convenient way to adjust (master) audio for such a situation. So you turn down for random browsing and turn up for watching movies or whatever.
Btw-- those are almost certainly the controls someone would use to turn down or mute the sound of that horrible website audio listed above. In such a case the fact that pulse can give you an app volume for Chrome doesn't help anything-- for example, the user who adjusted Pulse app volume down to avoid pain will need to adjust it back up when watching a movie on Youtube for the same reason you mentioned. But they can't adjust the app volume with the keyboard controls. So to make use of that feature forces a more complicated UI that takes longer to use.