[MPlayer-users] Odd problem with usb headset

[Joey Parrish]

On 4/27/07, Colin Rosenthal <csr at statsbiblioteket.dk> wrote:
> I am trying to play mplayer (dev-SVN-r20781-4.1.1) through a usb headset
> under Linux Fedora Core 6.
> I invoke it with
> mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1 myfile.mp3 and the audio comes through ok, but
> i) I cannot control the volume ( using / and * I get the feedback
> message that the volume has changed but
> the actual level is unaffected)

Perhaps it is changing the wrong mixer.  Try specifying another mixer
in your -ao alsa options.

--Joey