[MPlayer-users] Volume up/down and mute

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:29:14AM +1030, n0dalus wrote:
> On 11/14/05, Ville Herva <v+mplayer at iki.fi> wrote:
> > Ability to tune volume up/down (/ * keys) is nice, but when I'm watching TV
> > (dvb://CHANNEL) and then want to momentarily hear something else, it would
> > be nice if mplayer would only set its own volume, not the global mixer
> > device (in case several programs access /dev/dsp). If this is difficult to
> > implement, I imagine at least mute could only mute the mplayer sound output,
> > not mute the whole global mixer device?
> >
> > (I'm using mplayer-1.0-0.lvn.0.19.pre7.3 on Fedora Linux)
> >
> 
> Try mplayer -softvol. See the man page for more info.

Will not help with tv-in. You probably want -mixer-channel

Rich