Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 05:02:47PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 07:33:30AM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote:
I noticed that setting softvol-max in mplayer does not work either
in ~/.mplayer/config or on command line.
I noticed this when using smplayer. AFAIK it does not work with sndio. No-one
has yet looked into why. Please go ahead ;)
what do you guys mean by "does not work"? you mean that mplayer never
says the volume is > 100%? that's how it's supposed to work, and it
works correctly in my testing.
what I mean, (and I found a complicated solution to problem on my end)
is that mplayer ignores current sound level settings and always plays at
volume level 127. That value can easily be readjusted, but only after
mplayer is running. One other program that ignores also is thunderbird.
So annoying that I disable new mail sound effect.
This behavior is very annoying. Not much more than annoying though.
The only two ways I could get around this was to use two xterms or a
script that forks a volume control change after mplayer starts.
I use aucatvol, by the way. Changing volume within mplayer won't stay
stuck throughout a playlist.
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