2019-01-19, 17:31
Detailed Description
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Just launching a song with "Play Using" onto a DLNA renderer, volume is excessively loud.
Risk of destroying speakers and alerting neighbors !!!
My view is this is too dangerous to have such default setup from a fresh Kodi installation.
I tried with a connected Yamaha audio player (RN-602) and also on a Philips TV. In both cases, volume turnt to the maximum of the device.
Suggestion
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A quick temporary fix by the user:
Kodi default volume setup in guisettings.xml audio is <fvolumelevel>1.0</fvolumelevel>. Set it up to 0.5 of course allows an acceptable SAFE volume level.
But the default Kodi setup should not allow such high volume at start. So default value at install should be lower (like 0.5)
or Kodi shall apply another logic to set the audio volume of DLNA renderer. (like do not change the ABSOLUTE volume level of the DLNA renderer but only use the <fvolume> tag value as a "multiplier" ratio of the signal volume level.
Tested config: kodi-18.0-Leia_rc5.2-x64 on Windows7
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Just launching a song with "Play Using" onto a DLNA renderer, volume is excessively loud.
Risk of destroying speakers and alerting neighbors !!!
My view is this is too dangerous to have such default setup from a fresh Kodi installation.
I tried with a connected Yamaha audio player (RN-602) and also on a Philips TV. In both cases, volume turnt to the maximum of the device.
Suggestion
=======
A quick temporary fix by the user:
Kodi default volume setup in guisettings.xml audio is <fvolumelevel>1.0</fvolumelevel>. Set it up to 0.5 of course allows an acceptable SAFE volume level.
But the default Kodi setup should not allow such high volume at start. So default value at install should be lower (like 0.5)
or Kodi shall apply another logic to set the audio volume of DLNA renderer. (like do not change the ABSOLUTE volume level of the DLNA renderer but only use the <fvolume> tag value as a "multiplier" ratio of the signal volume level.
Tested config: kodi-18.0-Leia_rc5.2-x64 on Windows7