[Bug 29399] New: Enhancing the media volume

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=29399

            Bug ID: 29399
           Summary: Enhancing the media volume
           Product: HTML.next
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: PC
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: default
          Assignee: dave.null@w3.org
          Reporter: sworddragon2@aol.com
        QA Contact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, robin@w3.org
  Target Milestone: ---

https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110113/video.html#dom-media-volume limits
the volume to the range 0.0 - 1.0 with not requiring to be linear. But I'm
seeing a problem here:

The loudest setting 1.0 will be probably equal or nearly equal to the current
system volume on browsers. But often enough 2 different videos on the same
media volume level have an internal very different volume resulting that some
videos are very quiet while others are not (that happens even in commercial
videos switching between different ads). In that case it would be helpful being
able to increase the volume even much more. This is why I request to:

- Removing the media volume limit of 1.0.
- Defining the media volume of 1.0 to be equal to the current system volume.
- Requiring the media volume to be linear.


These points makes it possible that the user can increase the volume to high
enough values to better compensate volume differences between different videos
while the last 2 points are making the volume more predictable. Web
applications can still limit the maximum volume that the user can adjust in
case they think that would cause too much distortion so applying these changes
should not be a big problem for them.

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Received on Thursday, 28 January 2016 16:08:26 UTC