[MPlayer-users] Setting initial audio volume

[RC]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:20:51 -0600
"John Karp" <johnkarp at gmail.com> wrote:

> don't see any way of setting the initial (hardware) volume from the
> mplayer command line.

Probably because MPlayer isn't meant to be a volume control/mixer.

> (which wouldn't always do the right thing, for example if mplayer's
> configuration causes it to use a different output device)

It's certainly possible for you to parse MPlayer's conf file to
determine which card and channel it's going to use, if not the default.