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Element Desktop makes changes to input volume on windows
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- TypeScript
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Description
### Steps to reproduce
1. Set microphone "Input volume" to 100% in windows settings
2. Open element desktop on windows
3. Join element call
4. Clap your hands
5. See that input volume in windows changed to <100% (80-90% in my case)
### Outcome
#### What did you expect?
Settings - Voice & Video - Automatically adjust the microphone volume - Disabled
I expect that element won't change my microphone volume even if it is too loud.
#### What happened instead?
Microphone volume goes down and I'm too quiet for other speakers. Element never adjusts volume up, only down.
Volume is not adjusted on element web (in firefox).
### Operating system
Windows 10, Windows 11
### Application version
1.11.110
### How did you install the app?
_No response_
### Homeserver
_No response_
### Will you send logs?
No
Contributor guide
Research direction
Reproduce the microphone-volume change in Element Desktop on Windows 10 or 11 with automatic adjustment disabled, using the reported application version as a starting point. Compare the behavior with Element Web in Firefox and trace where microphone input is adjusted during an Element call; done means the Windows input volume remains unchanged when the setting is disabled.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- audio-video-rtc, desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100