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 The following message contains related comments. Carl Eugen