[MPlayer-users] Problem With TV Viewing.

[Patrick Twohig]

I have a TV card installed and I want to watch TV using Mplayer.  There 
is one slight problem with it, though.  Whenever I load up Mplayer and 
change the channel, it sets the volume on the TV-card up to it's highest 
setting and the audio sounds very distored.  For my TV card, the audio 
chip is unsupported as a regular /dev/dsp* device, so my only recourse 
is to use the internal audio patch cable to connect it to my sound 
card.  However, the mixer is supported, and in other TV programs it maps 
correctly to that device and scales the volume down accordingly.  I 
tried using the following to get it working, but it didn't help.

mplayer -mixer /dev/mixer1 tv://

What can I do to force Mplayer to use that other mixer device?

Oh, and BTW, I can adjust my volume for the TV card in Kmix but whenever 
I change channels in Mplayer it jumps back up to the highest volume 
setting so it's possible, but not practical, to watch TV at a volume 
that won't make me deaf.