[MPlayer-users] sound too loud

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Amadeus W.M. <amadeus84 <at> verizon.net> writes:

> 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

Here is a patch (the alternative is to disable pulse):
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2009-December/063096.html
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Carl Eugen