#245 closed defect (fixed)
sound menu: wrong max volumes
| Reported by: | SF/logicdeluxe | Owned by: | fingolfin |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Audio |
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| Cc: | Game: |
Description
Built on May 11 2002 00:14:00 win You can turn up master volume and sfx volume only up to 100. However higher volumes are supported and work well with command line parameters and in scummvm.ini
Ticket imported from: #555102. Ticket imported from: bugs/245.
Change History (10)
comment:1 by , 22 years ago
comment:2 by , 22 years ago
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comment:3 by , 22 years ago
Readme.txt and scummvm stoud help list 255 for sfx volume. Giving 255 by command line works fine as well as given it in scummvm.ini. In fact it is something louder and I get a better sound quality. There is an auditable better signal to noise ratio this way. Besides this the sound menu displays the value in scummvm.ini not a percent value. It might intended to be percentage values but abviously it is not. And the master volume is set to 125 as default if there is no scummvm.ini. This value seems to be the maximum for master volume. Bigger values (which you can enter in scummvm.ini) result in malfunctions to me. But 125 works fine. Master should range from 0 to 125. Music should range from 0 to 100. SFX should range from 0 to 255. This is equivalent to scummvm.ini and command line options, and it works fine for me. Of course you could also change the scale in order to fit these ranges in percentage values.
comment:4 by , 22 years ago
So what should be done about this? If Endy has no time/machine, I offer to look into this, if you like..
comment:5 by , 22 years ago
Ender? What about this? Do you intend to fix it? If not re-assign it to me, please. Even though we are working on a new GUI it can't hurt to fix this in the old one before :-)
Personally I think all the values should be percentages in the GUI.
comment:6 by , 22 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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comment:8 by , 22 years ago
Slider ranges are 0-100, yet the volumes use different ones. We want to fix this, ideally by simply converting the GUI value range 0-100 to the 'real' ranges and back (for maximal backward compatibility). However, this is not easy, in fact with the current system it is impossible. For a quick overview, read this:
Music volume range: 1-100 iMUSE master volume range: 0-128 Mixer master volume range: 0-256 SFX volume range: 0-256
Correct, the master volume range of iMUSE and the mixer don't match! Since both are steered by _sound_volume_master, we are screwed. This is really a big mess and sadly is not the only case of similar issues. The almost complete lack of any documentation (and I am not very demanding, I even count comments as docs) are not helping us either.
Somebody (me if I have the time) should fix this by rewriting all the functions to take a nice range like 0-255 or 0-256. And while (s)he is at it, HiFi equipment uses logarithmic volume controls (not linear ones as we do) since they match the human ear better.
comment:9 by , 22 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:10 by , 5 years ago
| Component: | --Unset-- → Audio |
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This is because the menu values are not really max, but are intended to be percentages.
Do you think the maximum value you can set via the command line is not as load as the menus 100%? What values do you believe you should be able to use?