From nobody Wed Dec 10 13:18:09 2025 X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4dRGVy6vWgz6KYPC for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:18:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christos@FreeBSD.org) Received: from margiolis.net (mail.margiolis.net [95.179.159.8]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA512) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4dRGVy1P6zz432f; Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:18:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christos@FreeBSD.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; s=default; bh=Ia4Lmt07Facu vlu4tF+NKfwfLlpXv9YboYci3VjMua4=; h=in-reply-to:references:to:cc:from: subject:date; d=margiolis.net; b=DGe6/hgCUoEzxscY9DS/nrois4praP0t/kqRB CVv5E4WIzkQkG23jnay6TrsdGlajj34l0X5y+z1oCWRwtDyHwQF5R3DuEKzajq6fp6aiCb DvHR8QQjIgO7k5SSCcUDGIK1yX8+ca0yzQ8cEWIUwLq890ejBqM3HowEcRyJt4qY= Received: from localhost (public-gprs247847.centertel.pl [31.60.115.104]) by margiolis.net (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 9ba8eff0 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:18:10 -0700 (MST) List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-multimedia List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:18:09 +0100 Message-Id: Subject: Re: Muting only affects audio that is playing From: "Christos Margiolis" Cc: To: "Sean C. Farley" X-Mailer: aerc 0.21.0 References: <8028333b-f7c1-7992-1016-4194623fce38@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <8028333b-f7c1-7992-1016-4194623fce38@FreeBSD.org> X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:20473, ipnet:95.179.144.0/20, country:US] X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4dRGVy1P6zz432f Hello Sean, On Wed Dec 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM CET, Sean C. Farley wrote: > When I mute the mixer, it will mute any program currently playing audio > to the device. That is as expected. > > However, this does not prevent audio from being played in other > conditions: > - Restarting mpv. > - Pausing then unpausing mpv. > - Playing something in Firefox then skipping into the video. Pausing > and unpausing seems to work with Firefox. > > I wish I could recall better, but I think it used to work at least prior > to switching from the motherboard sound to a dedicated sound card. > > Mute should stick, yes? I have also tried pcm.mute=3Don, but it does not > change anything. I do not run 14.3-STABLE anymore, but I am pretty sure this wasn't an issue back then, and definitely doesn't seem to be a problem in 15.0-RELEASE. At least I do not recall anyone else having reported such an issue. Can you by any chance try with 15.0 and let me know if the issue persists? I am not sure if that could be a sound card-specific issue, as the muting functionality is done on the sound(4) layer, but if your issue persists we'll have to dig investigate this scenario as well. If you cannot try 15.0, can you at least recompile sound (or your kernel if sound is compiled into the kernel) and re-test? Christos