* Re: [gentoo-user] Smplayer adjusting PCM level in Kmix.
@ 2021-06-27 9:54 99% ` John Covici
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From: John Covici @ 2021-06-27 9:54 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 23:52:51 -0400,
Dale wrote:
>
> 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?
Does the same happen with mpv? I never use mplayer anymore.
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