[MPlayer-users] [BUGREPORT] Crash when REAL used with any -aop options

[Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de]

Hi,
> >>>> I realize -aop is depreciated, but volnorm is still very
> >>>> useful.
> >>> 
> >>> all aops are now available as afs, so no need to use -aop
> >>> anymore. Thus this won't be fixed anymore (unless it also happens
> >>> with -af).
> >> 
> >> Not with quite the same functionality, they're not. Specifically,
> >> with -af volume=<value>, I get: an OSD volume display which
> >> sometimes makes no sense (up to jumping between zero and max when I
> >> try to adjust volume on the fly); at higher volumes, staticky audio
> >> which gets worse as time and/or volume adjustments go on; and no
> >> response whatsoever to the volume adjustment keys, except for a
> >> change in the OSD. On the other hand, -aop
> >> list=volume:volume=<value> has none of these problems.
> > 
> > That's probably because you're using the volume filter in a way it
> > isn't supposed to be used...
> 
> News to me if so. AFAIK, I'm just following a recommendation (from
> Richard?) on how to get software volume control at all.

Probably an older recommendation ;-)

> I'll have a look, though I may not actually change anything since SDL
> output seems to give me what I was after.
> 
> > Also by adjusting (replacing) the values 90.0 and 180.0 (2*90.0) you
> > can adjust the possible range of the volume.
> > 
> > Care to make a patch to allow to select all this on the command line?
> > ;-)
> 
> If I can figure out how (a *very* big if) and don't procrastinate my way
> to abandoning the idea (an unfortunately likely proposition), I'd love
> to.

How about starting with the attached patch, fixing compilation error in case
there are any and writing a manpage entry for it ;-)

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger

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