Mplayer Volume
 

Hi, When I play a video in Mplayer the volume is too low. (yes all of the volume bars are maxed out)

So I did some research. I found this: http://howto.wikia.com/wiki/Howto_in...maximum_volume
Which is from this: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/...MPLAYER%20ONLY)

How do I make mplayer do this on the tablet without always starting it from xterm?

Can I put it in a config file? The only one I know about is ~/.mplayer/config But if I add the command line optipns mplayer dosent want to start.

So how do I do this? Has anyone ever done this?

Thanks!

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I'm guessing... posting without testing, that mplayer will remember set volume. Run mplayer from command line and set your desired volume with 0 and 9 keys as I recall. I'd expect that volume setting to still be tthere when using the mplayer gui.

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Im already at 100% volume, this command will allow you to set a new max % up to 1000%. I don't want to go that high, but that is the idea, to uncap the max volume.

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Sorry, I misunderstood the question :)

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Use /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf to set it. Or the config in your home folder.

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What do I put in the file?

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softvol=1
softvol-max=200

EDIT: Tried it - works.

or with filter if you wih:
af=volume=10.1:0

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I just added


It works perfectly!
Now I can watch movies on the bus.

Thanks.

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I hope you mean through headphones:-)

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This probably would also fix the 2008HE quiet mplayer problem.

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@Bundyo

Off topic, but do you use 770?

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I have both 770 and N800.

Trying to sell the 770, but not very hard :)

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Cool :D

I was just interested because I kept thinking you had 770 because of your posts :D

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My posts were 770 centric when i had only 770 (till about the middle of january), now i post in both camps :)

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I'm glad you have a N800 :). Otherwise I'd never get to see your brilliant work :)

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Heh, no need to flatter me, it's nothing that special. :)

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:D Lol, but I do appriciate your work though :)

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Yes. there is too much background noise for me to hear at the nromal 100%.

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OK, I'm not a total noob, but for some reason I can't figure out how to edit config files in Diablo. I copied the mplayer.conf over to my MMC, tried to open in Notepad and Xournal, but neither could open. I know I was able to edit in Chinook and Bora, what gives? Or am I just totally missing something obvious?

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Just edit it in Xterm with nano or vi.

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So vi /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf?

Thanks

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I explain how to use vi in this post.

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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

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

mike

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


bun

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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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you can also use the ALSA mixer if you have EasyDebian to drive the volume higher - increase 'DMA' a little - too high and it will be dangerous

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I only "see" mplayerplug-in.types and mplayerplug-in.conf in /home/user/.mplayer/

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Me, too. (Nothing like "sdl.volume")

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In /etc/mplayer/
adding the following to the bottom of the file, mplayer.conf

solved my volume issue and I have been good to go ever since. :)

I think I found that^ bit in our WiKi at one time.

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What is this optional filter meant to do? Any tweaking of the numbers advisable?

(Also, I suppose softvol=1 is the same as softvol=true. And the max numbers you just experiment with. I tried softvol-max=1400 as suggested here, and, wow, it resulted in lots of distortion even at low volume.)