[MPlayer-users] Volume up/down and mute

[n0dalus]

On 11/14/05, Ville Herva <v+mplayer at iki.fi> wrote:
> Ability to tune volume up/down (/ * keys) is nice, but when I'm watching TV
> (dvb://CHANNEL) and then want to momentarily hear something else, it would
> be nice if mplayer would only set its own volume, not the global mixer
> device (in case several programs access /dev/dsp). If this is difficult to
> implement, I imagine at least mute could only mute the mplayer sound output,
> not mute the whole global mixer device?
>
> (I'm using mplayer-1.0-0.lvn.0.19.pre7.3 on Fedora Linux)
>

Try mplayer -softvol. See the man page for more info.

n0dalus.