[MPlayer-users] sound too loud

[Amadeus W.M.]

I'm having a sound problem with mplayer on a brand new F12 installation. 
When I play any file mplayer always starts with the volume at 100%. The 
volume does work, I can lower it during the playback, but it's deafening 
upon start up. I haven't disabled yet pulseaudio and it may very well be 
a pulseaudio problem, but where do I start looking? This is what mplayer 
says when it starts:

mplayer MVI_3695.AVI 
MPlayer SVN-r29800-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote 
control.

Playing MVI_3695.AVI.
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [MJPG]  320x240  24bpp  15.000 fps  2320.1 kbps (283.2 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
 Digitization Time: Sun Jun 24 19:18:58 2007

 Software: CanonMVI01
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared 
object file: No such file or directory
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Unsupported PixelFormat -1
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 11024 Hz, 1 ch, u8, 88.2 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 11024->11024)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 11024Hz 1ch u8 (1 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8
[swscaler @ 0xbbbb60]BICUBIC scaler, from yuv422p to yuv420p using MMX2
[swscaler @ 0xbbbb60]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance 
scaling
[swscaler @ 0xbbbb60]using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance 
scaling
[swscaler @ 0xbbbb60]using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical scaling (YV12 
like)
[swscaler @ 0xbbbb60]320x240 -> 320x240
VO: [xv] 320x240 => 320x240 Planar YV12 
A:   8.3 V:   8.3 A-V:  0.000 ct: -0.000 126/126  2%  1%  0.0% 0 
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Exiting... (Quit)