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#38172
fixing dangerous PulseAudio defaults and giving it a record type
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Reported by: raingloom <raingloom <at> riseup.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:11:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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On Mon, 2020-01-06 at 18:02 +0000, Alek Zikon wrote:
> Everytime audio or video starts playing on WebkitGTK-based browsers
> (epiphany, next), the system volume is maxed out. This happens when
> you start the audio or video by clicking on the play button and also
> when audio or videos are played automatically (in a playlist, or ad
> videos, for example).
>
> This issue has been reported before upstream, but epiphany people say
> the source of the problem is in pulsaudio defaults on distros (
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/issues/73):
>
> Thanks for reporting this issue. You'll need to ask Debian to
> disable
> PulseAudio's flat volumes feature, as is done by all other major
> distributions (Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, openSUSE, probably more),
> since we're not going to make any changes here.
>
> I found that there is a related pulsaudio bug reported on Guix (
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38172). Unfortunately, this issue
> is still open.
>
> Epiphany people say you, as a user, can work around the issue by
> setting "flat-volumes = no in your /etc/pulse/daemon.conf." What's
> the correct way to this on the Guix System?
>
>
> I'm using this software:
>
> epiphany 3.30.4
> WebKitGTK+ 2.26.1
> GNOME 3.30.2
>
> $ guix describe
> Generation 16 Jan 03 2020 14:36:37 (current)
> guix 7158fe4
> repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> branch: master
> commit: 7158fe4ded47a599ceb8d556132ba83fcc686962
>
CC-ing https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38172
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