Narasimha-sc d49ab88e66 desktop: fix Windows per-app volume reset on video playback (#6852) ...

VideoPlayer's mediaPlayerReady listener called mediaPlayer.audio().setVolume(100)
on every freshly created VLC player. On Windows, VLCJ routes setVolume through
WASAPI's ISimpleAudioVolume, which is the per-app entry in the Windows Volume
Mixer — so every video playback snapped SimpleX Chat's mixer volume back to 100%,
overriding the user's own setting.

The call was also redundant: VLCJ's default volume for a new MediaPlayer is
already 100, and the only path that previously used setVolume (enableSound) has
been disabled since VLCJ issue #985 ("Impossible to change volume for only one
player. It changes for every player.").

Dropping the setVolume(100) line fixes the Windows regression without changing
playback loudness on any platform. AudioPlayer / SoundPlayer / CallSoundsPlayer
use a singleton VLC player and never called setVolume, so voice messages and
ringtones are unaffected.

Co-authored-by: Evgeny Poberezkin <evgeny@poberezkin.com>

2026-04-21 20:10:50 +01:00

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desktop: fix Windows per-app volume reset on video playback (#6852)

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ui: new UX for making connections after / as part of onboarding (#6753)

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