[MPlayer-users] Volume up/down and mute

[Ville Herva]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:41:39AM -0500, you [Rich Felker] wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:29:14AM +1030, n0dalus wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Will not help with tv-in. You probably want -mixer-channel

Well, -softvol seems to do the trick for me with DVB. :)


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