On 07/11/15 15:49, Jan Stary wrote:
On Jul 11 08:30:37, t...@parlementum.net wrote:
On 07/11/2015 08:24 AM, Jan Stary wrote:
On Jul 10 19:15:31, h...@stare.cz wrote:
On Jul 10 06:01:17, t...@parlementum.net wrote:
I'm having a bit of trouble with audio on my 5.7 box (Thinkpad T430.) Audio
is just a bit too quiet to be comfortable even when I have everything maxed
out. I had a similar problem on Linux
Are you sure the audio hardware is actually capable
of playing louder than it does? How exactly are you playing what?
I'm pretty sure. I mainly see it when playing youtube videos
^^^^^^
Mainly. So not always?
Do you experience this "low volume" when playing
just regular audio? For example, if you have sox installed,
try playing 'play -n synth 10 sin 220' (which is a saturated sin wave).
If the source is loud enough I can hear it. When volume is maxed out the
sine wave is certainly audible,
but I wouldn't call it loud. Playing around with the value of
outputs.master while the wave is actually running
showed something odd though: levels above 175 don't matter. I guess this
is related to the inputs stopping at 174 (inputs.dac-0:1=174,174)
via mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3IidGmVLo4
was giving me trouble for example.
mpv (or any other player, for that matter)
can have its own volume settings. If these are set low,
maxing out outputs.master will not help you much.
So how is mpv's volume set during this playback?
mpv's volume is at 100%
I know for sure that the hardware is capable of being much
louder since I'm able to play it at a good volume in Windows and Linux
(both Pulseaudio and ALSA, after I add a boost device to ALSA.)
I don't know what an ALSA boost device is,
but the name suggests some kind of amplification.
Yes, it's meant to increase the volume of sounds before they actually
reach the sound card. I need it when using ALSA
but not when using Pulseaudio. The same issue may be underlying Linux
ALSA though. Maybe some weird vendor thing
where the sound card is too quiet when you're not using the
manufacturer's special Windows driver? I've noticed that
under Windows the laptop can get *really* loud if you set the volume high.
Sorry it took so long, lots of large files over a slow network.
