[MPlayer-users] muting mplayer without muting 'PCM' sound

[Louis-David Mitterrand]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 04:11:18PM +0200, Alexander Roalter wrote:
> Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there a way to mute mplayer's sound without muting alsa's PCM device?
> > (while keeping the ability to unmute, so no "mplayer -ao null")
> > 
> > I'd like to be able to keep listening music with xmms while monitoring a 
> > mute TV screen in mplayer. Unfortunately when I 'm' mplayer it cuts 
> > xmms' sound as well.
> > 
> > Thanks for your suggestions,

> -softvol should do the trick, AFAIK

Yep, another case of not reading the man page closely enough :)

Thanks!