[Hardy RC] movie volume in totem noticeably lower than in Gutsy

[Jean-Paul]

Hm, I seem to be complaining a lot today :p

Anyway, I noticed that in the Totem in Gutsy the volume of movies was much higher than the volume of those very same movies played in the Hardy RC, also with totem.
It only happens in totem, in amarok for instance, the volume is unaltered.
This is a problem because it forces me to raise the volume of my speakers to the max. in order to even hear the volume at a semi-acceptable sound level, and if *any* other sound is played it plays at such a high volume that my speakers could tear.

If any other info is needed please let me know.

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

Hello Jean-Paul, and thanks for this report. Have you ensured that the volumes in Totem are equivalent in both cases? Totem has its own volume level, which might be low in comparison to say, the Amarok volume, causing this issue. Let me know, I personally do not experience this issue.

[Jean-Paul (jeanpaul145)]

Indeed I have. The Totem volume as well as the master volume slider (I use the ALSA PCM on front:0 via DMA (PulseAudio Mixer, where there is only one slider) are both set to maximum. That leaves me only the (hardware) volume slider of my speakers, which, as I explained above, I had to set to max.

[trollord (trollenlord)]

Does the pulseaudio have some extra setting he could check?

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Try installing one of the pulseaudio utilities that allows controlling of volume for applications. I'd say that if you were to set the volume level for the pulseaudio stream, that things could be set the same as in gutsy.

[Paul Drain (pd)]

I had this same issue (totem was near-silent on a HP DV6000 and DV9000, but everything else was normal -- albeit with an audiable crackling sound when the volume was turned up to 100% all-round.)

I found that the HOWTO listed here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578 has fixed it for me, with two very minor drawbacks.

a) the microphone still exhibits the clicking, static-like noise when you talk into it using the emulated ALSA device (pulse applications like the GStreamer stack with Empathy work fine though)

b) the mute button on the quick-play bar ceases to work, but the up-and-down volume slider works correctly.

Aside from that, Totem, Rhythmbox, Banshee, Empathy, recordmydesktop and other apps I use are all at the same volume, all the time now.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

There has been no activity on this bug for a while now. Is this still an issue with either Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 with updates installed, or Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 alpha 3?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]