On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 10:23:25PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > > > 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.
ah. you are talking about aucat volume, not mplayer's internal volume. softvol affects mplayer's internal volume. > 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. well, on my machine, mplayer does get it's last aucat volume back. that is, if I start mplayer then set it's aucat volume to 90, then quit mplayer and start it again later, it's aucat volume is 90. this works through playlists too. mplayer's internal volume, however, gets reset both when stopping/starting and when changing songs in a playlist. mplayer's internal volume is what is displayed by mplayer. if you are manipulating aucat volume because you have no hardware controls, you might find the nmixer program from the mp3blaster package useful. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
