Re: Mplayer Volume
 

So vi /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf?

Thanks

Re: Mplayer Volume
 

I explain how to use vi in this post.

Re: Mplayer Volume
 

Everybody has their favorite tools. For me, it is emelfm2. Advantage of emelfm2, it is a file manager with a editor. So you use it like a file manager, look for the file you want to edit. You then open the file and do your editting, save and close. No special commands to remember. You do not have to move the file anywhere. You edit it on the spot. Go gronmayer.com/it/ and search for it. Beforewarned, emelfm2 is not the most user friendly prog in the world :)
It does has a GUI.

bun

Re: Mplayer Volume
 

thanks so much for this hack/fix. it is something that i have been looking for some time. much apprechated!

mike

Re: Mplayer Volume
 

Somewhat related materials, hot from the press, http://nittv.blogspot.com/.


bun

Re: Mplayer Volume
 

I'm trying to find program like aumix - more effective.

Re: Mplayer Volume
 

Please explain this clearly how to turn up the volume permanently on the N810 because the volume is just way way too low and once in a while i encounter a loud youtube video and it reminds me again how utterly low volume this things is.

I can't watch a video in any environment that has any noise. It totally ruins the devices video playback. Please explain [in non programmers language] what program to open, what file to edit, how to edit it, how to open it and close it so as not to cause any problems and then post the easy to use instructions in the help and faqs section of this website because everytime i try to show a video to someone i end up saying oooops sorry it's too low to hear in here or I have to hand them my earplugs.

Re: Mplayer Volume
 

I am using the internal media player and the volume is for me at times way to low. Any suggestions besides of using the very popular mplayer.

Re: Mplayer Volume
 

I would like to revisit this thread.

I have an N810/Diablo and mplayer's audio has never been very good for me. I have played with the soft-vol and audio filter settings in mplayer.conf quite a bit, but I always just drive the audio levels into distortion and yet the audio level isn't even close to what I can cleanly get out of the the Maemo Media Player.

Is there a another volume setting downstream from mplayer that is limiting my volume? (of course the main GUI volumes are up the same when using both programs for comparison).

I noticed the way things are played from each program seems to be very different. Looking at activity shown from the "top" program, I notice activity on from a tasks "osso-media-server" and "DSP/0", while playing in mplayer I instead see activity from tasks "mplayer", "esd", OMAP-SPI/0, and maemo-launcher. I specifically noticed "esd" which I think is "Enlightened Sound Daemon", which is a software multi-stream mixer. I also noticed the OMAP-SPI verses DSP/0 too.

Any clues about this?

Re: Mplayer Volume
 

I think a got it at least partially figured out.
(see previous post)

The culprit was /home/user/.mplayer/sdl.volume

it is a text file and it was set to 17. I changed it to 100 and everything mplayer is loud and clear. I was able to turn off the software volume control and audio filter in the mplayer.conf file and it is still nice an loud.

Question: What UI program tends to mess with this value? As far as I'm concerned it should remain at 100% and i can use the master Maemo volume control to turn things down from there as needed.