On Sunday, 27 June 2021 19:33:46 BST Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2021-06-27, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> one thing that Smplayer does that annoys me is each time it starts a
> >> new video, from either a fresh start or next video in the playlist,
> >> it adjusts the PCM sound level in Kmix.
> > 
> > I still use mplayer a lot, and it doesn't do that. Whenver I start
> > mplayer the volume is always whereever I left it last.
> > 
> > --
> > Grant
> 
> I think it is a Smplayer bug.  The idea Michael had worked.  I don't
> understand why but it worked. 

From what you described, 'something' was reverting audio to a preset volume 
level.  If it wasn't kmix's desktop setting, I assumed it would be application 
specific.


> I thought mplayer was supposed to be the big dog in video players. I
> recall slightly there being a debate about it but I thought mplayer won
> the day.  Am I wrong or has things changed since then??

Random linky says mpv is better:

https://www.slant.co/versus/13972/13973/~mplayer_vs_mpv

From what I recall mplayer doesn’t support VAAPI for hardware acceleration, 
but I moved from mplayer to mpv quite a few years now and have not kept up 
with mplayer's development.  As a matter of fact I had to check mplayer was 
still in portage!  :-)

Anyway, better informed chattering users express their views here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/43ky44/
mplayer_mplayer2_mpv_which_one_is_your_choice_and/