Jacob Meuser wrote:
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.
Just tried nmixer, but it has same problem as aucatvol.
Only works after starting mplayer.
So that isn't a better solution in my case, since I have a "clearer" set
of scripts for aucatvol.
Worth a try, though
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