Description of problem: The new flat volume feature of pulse audio is frustrating to use. I liked the feature in F10 where I could have my music player set to a lower volume but leave my system alerts high. That way I could hear IM's or alerts even though the music was playing. With the new release I don't have the level of control I would like "within the applications" I realize that using pavucontrol is an option, but I won't want to have to be able to bring up a separate app just to adjust the volume of my music player Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pulseaudio-libs-0.9.15-8.test7.fc11.i586 pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.15-8.test7.fc11.x86_64 pulseaudio-0.9.15-8.test7.fc11.x86_64 pulseaudio-utils-0.9.15-8.test7.fc11.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.15-8.test7.fc11.i586 pulseaudio-libs-devel-0.9.15-8.test7.fc11.i586 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.15-8.test7.fc11.x86_64 pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.15-8.test7.fc11.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.15-8.test7.fc11.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.15-8.test7.fc11.i586 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start mplayer with -vo pulse and adjust the volume 2. 3. Actual results: System volume is adjusted Expected results: Used to be in F10 that just the apps volume went down, particularly useful if you happen to have a loud file. Additional info:
You can still adjust the mplayer and event sound volume independantly. The flat voilume logic has nothing to do with this.
I found the "flat-volumes" option in daemon.conf and setting that to 'no' made everything work as desired. I think the problem with mplayer is that it is adjusting the wrong volume, Master vs some application level setting, but there does not seem to be a way to alter which volume to adjust.