I’m on OpenSuse Tumbleweed (although I’m pretty sure I noticed the behavior on Manjaro, too).
The problem is that the volume of e.g. Firefox gets turned down for no reason. I noticed that a youtube video was quite quiet. I then checkt pavu control and saw that the volume for Firefox was set to 83%. I set it back to 100, but after the pc resumed from standby, it was at 83 again. Sometimes it’s enough to just pause the video for it to move the volume back down.
Why is that and how do I disable this functionality?
Im not sure if this is the same thing but i noticed a similar problem in vivaldi but its specific to youtube, or at least it doesnt affect peertube the same way. It seems to be based on the volume of the video, my guess its a “feature” that tries to normalize volume between different videos, but ive never figured out how to disable it.
I had the same idea. Audio normalization is off in the youtube player. Maybe there’s another normalization going on in the pipeline