Re: [gentoo-user] Smplayer adjusting PCM level in Kmix.

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

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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