On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:16:44PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > > > 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
oh. that's a typo. that should have been 'aucat -l -v 30'. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
