Description of problem: When I push the "play" button, Miro raises the system volume to maximum. If I turn it down and then play another Miro video, it re-raises it to maximum. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Miro-3.0.1-1.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Play a video. For example, http://video.ted.com/talks/podcast/DanMeyer_2010X_480.mp4 (although the bug manifests with many other videos). Actual results: Miro sets the little loudspeaker icon at the bottom of the screen to maximum. I rip my headphones off my head, yelping in pain. Expected results: Miro plays the audio using the same volume as I had set before. Additional info:
I played around with it a little more, and figured out that Miro seems to temporarily adjust the system volume setting based on the Miro volume setting. So if I adjust the Miro volume setting while a vid is playing, it automatically adjusts the system volume, then when the vid quits it re-sets the system volume to whatever it was before. This was not the case with Miro 2.5.x. In 2.5.x, the Miro volume slider didn't do anything, and I just adjusted the volume with the system volume widget. The current behavior is too confusing.
I've never seen the behavior where the Miro volume control changes the system volume rather than the application volume. So I'm a little puzzled as to why this is happening to you. Can you attach the miro-log file to this bug?
Created attachment 414634 [details] miro-log
I can reproduce this with default settings on both Fedora 12 and Fedora 13. I'm really puzzled, though, because all Miro is doing is setting the "volume" property of the gstreamer playbin2 element. Miro doesn't do this on Ubuntu Karmic or Ubuntu Lucid. Lucid uses gstreamer 0.10.28. Fedora 12 and 13 have 0.10.29. It could be a problem with the gstreamer playbin2 element or something like that. Miro 3.0 is the first version to use the playbin2 element--prior versions used the playbin element. Often when we have problems with Miro, we check to see if Totem has similar issues since both Miro and Totem use gstreamer. In this case, I can reproduce the volume issue with Totem, too: 1. Set system volume to 0 by clicking on the volume applet and moving the slider to the bottom--but not all the way so that it's muted 2. Start Totem 3. Open a file 4. Play file 5. Push the volume in Totem to the top--you'll see the system volume go to the top, too. I don't really know where that gets us, but it seems to me this is either a bug in Fedora/gstreamer or it's intended behavior.
I asked around and I think I understand what's going on. The problem is that Miro is running into PulseAudio's one volume thing coupled with us (PCF) changing the max volume from 1.0 to 3.0 in Miro 3.0. If you drop the volume slider below 1/3 of the span, then when Miro plays a video/audio item, the system volume won't go to max--it'll go to an equivalent volume. I'll tweak Miro so that MAX_VOLUME is 2.0 for Miro 3.0.2. Upstream bug is http://bugzilla.pculture.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13383 . If Fedora packagers think that's too high, then they can patch it down to some smaller number.
Miro-3.0.2-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/Miro-3.0.2-1.fc13
Miro-3.0.2-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/Miro-3.0.2-1.fc12
Miro-3.0.2-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update Miro'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/Miro-3.0.2-1.fc12
Miro-3.0.2-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update Miro'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/Miro-3.0.2-1.fc13
Miro-3.0.2-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Miro-3.0.2-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Behavior has changed, but it isn't fixed. Current behavior (Miro-3.0.2-1.fc13.x86_64) is that when a video is started or the miro volume slider is changed, the system volume is set to the higher of the system volume and the miro volume. The actual volume seems to be influenced by both settings. Could somebody in-the-know please describe the intended behavior? Are the volume percentages supposed to be independently set and applied in series? Or are both volume sliders intended to be lockstepped together, each adjusting the one volume setting?
Like I said in comment 4, I can reproduce the lock-step volume behavior with Totem so that indicates to me that it's a Fedora/Pulseaudio thing and not a Miro thing. The thing that was fixed in 3.0.2 is that Miro no longer pushes the system volume to 300%.
I am not sure I understand this bug. Is it that there is some kind of feedback loop that on each track the volume is bumped a little more? If so sounds like a bug in Miro in that it feedsback volume info it got from pa. It shouldn't do that.
No, the volume is not bumped a little more on each track. I don't think there is a feedback loop. Rather, it's as if Miro is executing the following code whenever the miro volume slider is changed, and also whenever a video is started: system_volume = max (system_volume, f(miro_volume)); and then somewhere in the decoding pipeline output = miro_volume * system_volume * input_from_video_track; where miro_volume is the value of the miro volume slider, system_volume is the value of the mixer widget at the bottom right of my desktop, output is the percieved volume that I hear in my headphones, and f is a bizarre function which I haven't figured out yet, but which conforms to the following: x f(x) --------- 5 37 11 47 22 60 32 68 49 79 60 84 74 90 89 96 100 100
Leonard, was that explanation clear enough? If not, let me try again: Miro has a volume slider in the lower right corner of the program. Kmix has a volume slider as well. If I adjust Miro's volume slider to 100%, and then play a Miro video, the volume is very loud. So I adjust the kmix volume slider to 20%, and then the volume is fine. And then I press "stop" in Miro, and then press "play". Kmix's volume slider automatically adjusts itself to 100%, and the volume is again very loud. I don't think it is a bug in Miro, because espeak has the same problem: if I adjust the kmix slider to 20%, then "espeak foo", then the kmix slider automatically adjusts itself to 100%.
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