On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 05:48:54PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > > > Chris Bennett wrote: > > > > > >Jacob Meuser wrote: > >>On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 02:14:40PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > >> > >>>It's a aucat "feature" (limitation), trivial to change though. > >>>Should we allow the volume of not-yet-created streams to be > >>>changed? > >>> > >>>I see no drawback of doing so > >> > >>hmm. maybe I'm misunderstanding something. the description of > >>the '-v' option in aucat(1) says "In server mode, clients inherit > >>this paramter." so, if I start aucat with 'aucat -l -v 90', then > >>each client's initial volume will be 90, but it can still be set > >>to 127, and it would be the same overall volume as if I had started > >>aucat with 'aucat -l' and then set a client's volume to 127?
I did misunderstand. -v sets a maximum volume for each client, not the initial volume. > >>in other words, this patch lets you set the initial volume of > >>each client separately, as opposed to, or actually, in addition > >>to, setting the initial volume of all clients at server startup, > >>correct? > >> > >>I could definitely see uses for this. > >> > >I just tested this. > >I tried pkill aucat and then -v 67 > >then mplayer -> got full volume. > >Then I tried -v 12 > >then mplayer -> still full volume. > Now I tested by setting volume level, followed by running a playlist > then quitting mplayer, readjusting volume and restarting mplayer. > > And after testing a little more, mplayer is getting "stuck" at > previous volumes levels. Even after I use aucatvol to set volume, > mplayer remembers old setting. So it stays loud or soft according to > last volume level used in previous run, not at current volume > setting! Odd. let's do this in simple steps then. first, make sure you don't have any volume settings in your mplayer configs, then $ pkill aucat (check to make sure there are no aucat processes running) $ aucat -l $ mplayer file (don't use a playlist, just one file) remember how loudly that played $ pkill aucat (again, make sure there are no aucat process left hanging around) $ mplayer -l -v 30 $ mplayer file (the same file as before) now, does the second mplayer run sound as loud as the first? -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
