449169 - <video> sets mixer volume to 100%

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 448680

(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[Tim Starling]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/2008080513 Minefield/3.1a2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/2008080513 Minefield/3.1a2pre

The <video> element sets the mixer volume on the master channel to 100%. It shouldn't. It should leave it the hell alone.

The code makes it look like this is by design: nsOggDecoder initialises mInitialVolume to 1.0, then in nsOggDecoder::OpenAudioStream(), it calls mAudioStream->SetVolume(mInitialVolume). I'm not sure why this is done, but the effect is to blast out whatever rubbish the website autoplays through the speakers as loud as is physically possible. It should be obvious that this will be annoying.


Reproducible: Always

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