[MPlayer-users] A Mysterious Mute Question

[Onur Küçük]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 16:35:40 -0600
"Martin McCormick" <martin.m at suddenlink.net> wrote:

> 	The question, then, is how does mplayer remember that it
> was last muted?

 Are you using some kind of sound system like Pulseaudio ? It is quite
popular, you may be using it without being aware of it. Pulseaudio can
change, and keep track of, volume levels for different applications
independently and when you tell MPlayer to mute when using Pulseaudio
output it only mutes the MPlayer related part in Pulseaudio.

 I would check the volume levels, confguration etc. of Pulseaudio as
the scenario described here resembles the behavior. Most of the sound
configuration tools of desktop environments understand Pulseadio, also
the configs are usually in ~/.config/pulse.

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