Bug#558196: mplayer: Sets volume to 100% for PulseAudio

[Nathan A. Stine]

Package: mplayer
Version: 1.0~rc3+svn20090405-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

When using the PulseAudio output, mplayer sets the audio output to 100%.  For some sound cards this probably isn't a problem, but for my emu10k1-based (SB Live!) card, the PCM mixer's 0dB setting corresponds to 74%.  Mplayer makes this go to 100%, which gives me a 12dB gain and all kinds of clipping and noise because of it.  Totem, Rhythmbox, etc. all play nice with PulseAudio.  

There is a very simple patch available [1] that has not been accepted upstream yet, but I have no clue why it wouldn't be/isn't.

Thanks,

Nathan A. Stine

[1] http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2009-October/077999.html


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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