[MPlayer-cygwin] [SPAM] Basic help needed...

[Lostgallifreyan]

Lostgallifreyan <z.crow at btinternet.com> wrote:
(11/05/2015 16:49)

>Please let me know how (if) the following can be done:
>
>Remember in a config file, the last volume setting.
>Set specific audio output ports (for an Echo Layla device), again remembered in a config file.
>Use CTRL or ALT keys to extend the available keys to bind to commands.
>Load a file for playback, but always pause it immediately until I am ready to start it.
>

I found answers to the first two of my own questions:
ao=dsound:device=5      #Layla 9+10.
volume=24               #Does not override Layla.

The manual didn't help much, this was at least 85% excruciating guesswork! Blunt force trial and error! Why are we reduced to this? To be fair, the output in the console did help, a little bit, with advice for device options, but did not offer anything other than NO AUDIO until I'd solved most of the problem myself!

Is there a rational source of common advice and examples for setting up the kinds of basic starting conditions that almost anyone might expect to exist? It needs to be as general as possible, it must avoid landing a beginner in options useless unless they are on some specific and obscure system. Arguably 'dsound' could be considered obscure from a *nix based standpoint, but for the record, is there some way to tell a Windows (or other) system to use the most basic possible path to some specific output port? I tried ao=pcm:device=5, but it wasn't having any. How would a Windows system be told to use wave out?