[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH 1/2] mixer: do not unmute to volume 0, instead unmute to max.

[Andy Furniss]

Andy Furniss wrote:
> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>> On 08.04.2014, at 02:31, Hans-Dieter Kosch <hdkosch at kabelbw.de>
>> wrote:

>>> Unmute to only 10 or 50 or so, in order to not unexpectedly load
>>> the speakers (and the audience's ears) with full power?
>>
>> That completely breaks the intended purpose of working with devices
>> that only have a mute toggle...
>
> That's a shame, not that I use mute amy-way, but my card has a proper
> headphone amp and goes really loud as do my headphones.
>
> Using line out to my old stereo system, where the amp is too big for the
> speakers, which themselves are quite big/loud would certainly be an
> issue. were I say to mute with mixer on 50% and have it unmute to 100.

Having just tested "m" my setup doesn't unmute to 0 anyway, it comes 
back at what it was.

I am not using softvol, just alsa  -mixer-channel Master.