Hello all,

I recently upgraded to Fedora 12 (x86_64), using the KDE desktop, and mplayer installed from the repos provided by rpmfusion.org.

I've found that every time I start playing a video file in mplayer, no matter what I have the volume set at for the desktop (in KMix), mplayer resets it to maximum...blasting my ears each time. If I turn down the volume in mplayer, it goes back to max the next time anyway. I checked the config in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf, and there doesn't seem to be any setting in there that would set a default volume level. I've also cleared the .mplayer folder in my home directory and that also has no effect.

It would be ideal if it just started with whatever volume I already had set for the master volume in KMix (as was the behaviour I've expected from other configurations I've used).

Does anyone have any suggestions?

If your problem is mplayer, not Kmplayer check out whether your
$HOME/.mplayer/config is in place.

If that doesn't work for you, try:
or
or
Good luck.

Thanks - ao=alsa was sufficient for mplayer.

In the config for gmplayer (~/.mplayer/gui.conf), I had to set the following as well:

ao_driver = "alsa:device=default"
ao_alsa_mixer = "default"
ao_alsa_mixer_channel = "Master"
ao_alsa_device = "default"

I am glad to hear that. Please mark this post SOLVED/CLOSED then.
Cheers.