[MPlayer-users] Muting mplayer by not muting whole sound system? A feature request.

[RC]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:38:18 +0200
"Jouni.Lohikoski at iki.fi" <jlohikos at cc.hut.fi> wrote:

> Could it be possible to change the method for muting ALSA sound device
> by some other means, so only mplayer would be muted?

No.

However, you can use -softvol, which will make mplayer use it's own
software mixer, and not touch the actual mixer.  That should work.