Jacob Meuser wrote:
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?
Same volume, but I got that -l is unknown option and 30 was not taken as
option
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