This one is on PulseAudio device chooser and volume control. Now with this program you can actually control your volume level for different applications. Alright let’s say you’re running, example, if you are running like a VLC or your default movie player totem here, right. It can detect your stream. Let’s say your VLC stream and your totem and I also have Firefox running, so it doesn’t really matter which totem that you have, if you have some audio stream then you can control the volumes of it.
Now this is quite useful when you’re watching a movie, you turn on your master volume and it’s really loud, and then some idiot IM you on a page or whatever, and it goes loud right. So what you can do with that is turn your movie volume up high if you want and all you got to do is limit your paging volume to like maybe 20%. So that’s what this volume you can do with that like totem. You can limit to like 82% or VLC you can limit to 68%. So whatever you’re doing like you are watching a video on Firefox and you want it the loudest and your music, you don’t want to turn it off but you don’t want it to overtake your video viewing, and you can’t hear shit when you’re watching your video if your music is at the same level right.
So that’s another thing you can do to balance out what you want to hear at the same time. So that’s what you can do with this program. I've seen like other operating systems have this too like in Windows 7. They have something like this by default. This one is not a default, but in the future I hope they probably have something like this as a default because I think it’s kind of useful to have your control over the applications of how they have their maximum volume.
But it does not affect your master volume. It only affects different programs. So this is what it does, it has some options here like you can view your recording stream, your output devices and input devices and all that but mainly it’s the playback option is what this program is good for.
So if you want it, you can go to your Sonoptic, and just make sure, PulseAudio device chooser, the chooser is just the icon over here, this app here. The volume control, this are the two packages you wanted right, and the volume control is just what I'm going to show you, this one here. If you want, there’s an icon right here to be here when you log in every time. All you got to do is click on it and go down to preference, and you see this start app on log in. It will be there every time you log in.
So that’s what this program does, it controls the volume for different applications that you have, all the streams.
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