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Hello,
I updated to VLC 2 some days ago and I'm having an issue with the volume level.
Before the update whenever I increased the volume in VLC the master volume stayed the same.
Now whenever I increase the volume the master volume increases also.
For example if I set the volume on VLC at 150% when I'm watching a video with low audio, the master volume goes at 150% also and all other sounds like system sounds, skype etc. are REALLY loud and distorted.
It seems that vlc has become dependent to the master volume. If I increase the volume in vlc say to 140% and then decrease the master volume to 80%, vlc shows that the volume is the same(140%), but when I scroll up on the video I see that it has also decreased to the level of the master volume and goes up(!) to 90%.
It really made vlc almost unusable for me.. Anyone know of a solution?
I'm using KDE SC 4.8 with pulseaudio and phonon-vlc. I tried changing to phonon-gstreamer but the problem remains the same. Also in veromix I have set max volume to 100% but that doesn't seem to matter.
Thanks!
PS. Also now the volume goes only up to 200% instead of 400% that it did before. This is only a minor issue but if anyone knows how to re-enable it to go up to 400% please tell me.
Last edited by spiros (2012-03-13 10:35:25)
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Same problem here. I'm using gnome 3. Whaiting for solution...
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Same here. Quite annoying. Should we file a bug report?
I'm using KDE 4.8 and the phonon-vlc backend
Edit: It seems like the vlc volume control automatically changes the per-application volume setting of vlc in pulseaudio. If that exceeds the master volume, the master volume gets increased as well.
Last edited by dieteric (2012-03-06 14:56:29)
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Personally, I switched to SMPlayer because of this issue and I'm quite happy with it so far.
I hope it stays this way in the long run and I don't see any reason why it won't.
As for the 400% issue I wrote about in the first post if anyone has the same question, VLC 2 only goes up to 200% but it's supposed to be as loud as 400% was in the previous versions because now the volume is non-linear.
As far as I'm concerned, the volume controls in VLC 2 (at least on my computer) are really bad and make it unusable for me.
The good thing though, is that there are really good alternatives out there!
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Ok as it seems this wasn't VLC's fault but pulseaudio's.
I noticed that XBMC also has the same behaviour and searched for that and then found the solution in one of the XMBC forums.
For anyone else wondering how to have the master volume be independent of media player volumes here it is:
In /etc/pulse/daemon.conf set "flat-volumes = no" and uncomment the line.
Then restart pulseaudio or your computer and hopefully this will work for you also!
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In /etc/pulse/daemon.conf set "flat-volumes = no" and uncomment the line.
Then restart pulseaudio or your computer and hopefully this will work for you also!
I just found that as well and I can confirm it works.
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