Bug#697121: vlc: sudden very loud sound to cause hearing demage

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le vendredi 6 juin 2014, 19:32:30 Felipe Sateler a écrit :
> > Unfortunately, VLC cannot get the PulseAudio volume until after audio
> > playback starts. There is no way to fix this on VLC side: there is no API
> > in libpulse to get the volume of an application until after a sink
> > input/stream is created.
> What about pa_context_get_sink_info_by_name? With that you can get the
> volume of the default sink by specifying NULL as the sink name.

That will only work the first time you use a media player ever. Afterward, 
PulseAudio will remember a volume for the media player role, that is distinct 
from the default sink volume - with default settings.

In other words, this does not work.

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