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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Smplayer adjusting PCM level in Kmix.
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Howdy,

I've had this problem for a really long time.  I've tried adjusting
settings in Smplayer to stop it but so far, I have not found the magic
combination or option to change.  I don't have pulseaudio here.  Just
Alsa and friends. 

As some know, I use Smplayer to watch TV with.  I use the old dying
Gnome-player to watch other videos on my computer screen and sound
through computer speakers.  I tend to watch fix it videos etc with
Gnome-player.  Anyway, 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. Usually it
adjusts it down to almost mute.  I've seen it adjust down to 6 and even
2.  Either way, no sound.  I've tried every setting in Smplayer and the
audio section I can find and no matter what, it adjusts the PCM sound
level in Kmix every single time.  It's annoying as heck.  I think I've
looked in every config file that deals with sound.  I've removed or
commented out a lot of volume settings with no change.

Does anyone know if there is a way to tell it to knock it off?  It's
getting so annoying, I'm thinking about abandoning Smplayer.  So far, I
haven't seen any other player do this.  That's why I think it is a
Smplayer setting somewhere.  By the way, Smplayer is set to not change
volume with Kmix or anything else.  I adjust the volume on the TV
itself, with a remote.  One woould think that it bypassing sound control
devices that it would also leave Kmix alone, since it shouldn't even be
going through it anyway. 

Ideas? 

Dale

:-)  :-)