KMPlayer Volume / Software Mixing

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smithxi

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Thursday, January 25th 2007, 6:56am

KMPlayer Volume / Software Mixing

Does anyone know how to set KMPlayer to not adjust the volume of other applications?

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ipspeł

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Posts: 40

Thursday, January 25th 2007, 4:21pm

Re: KMPlayer Volume / Software Mixing

KMPlayer is a really basic player and doesn't have many options as a standalone player, it's best use is as a Konqueror plugin.

I know KPlayer uses MPlayer to change volume, so usually the right channel gets adjusted, but if not you can tell it what mixer device should be used to change volume.

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smithxi

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Thursday, January 25th 2007, 4:56pm

in kplayer, will that mixer device then change like say amarok's volume? also can you tell me what mixer device to enter?

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ipspeł

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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 1:53pm

By default it will change the PCM volume of your sound card, and that will affect the volume of other programs using the same card.

You can change that by telling MPlayer or ALSA to use software volume control.

To tell MPlayer to use its software volume control, put a

-softvol

option into the Additional Command Line Arguments field on the Advanced page in Configure KPlayer dialog. Then changing volume in KPlayer will not affect volume in other programs.

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smithxi

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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 2:47pm

Can this be done with KMPlayer? I just upgraded to the amd64 distro and kplayer isn't in repos!

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ipspeł

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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 4:14pm

What distro? There is a Debian package at http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/k/kplayer/

Else you will have to try the softvol plugin for ALSA.

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smithxi

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Posts: 81

Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 5:49pm

It was in repos before for 32bit Etch, but now it's not for 64bit Etch. I'm using us.debian.org and debian.org as my repos. Tell me what repo to add and I'll try that.

Wait, your link installed perfectly! I'll try the software mixing setting. Odd that it wasn't in repos though. I've apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade, and still they didn't show up. Maybe the repo isn't fully developed yet because it's 64bit testing.

Oh it works flawlessly, thank you so much!

Is it possible to add support for other video types?

This post has been edited 3 times, last edit by "smithxi" (Jan 30th 2007, 6:01pm)

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ipspeł

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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 7:25pm

Neither KPlayer nor MPlayer are in debian.org repositories, which is in fact a good thing, because Christian Marillat makes packages that include all codecs, DVD decryption, and everything else that is not possible in the official Debian. Marillat repository is at http://www.debian-multimedia.org/

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main

To get all win32 binary codecs, run

apt-get install w32codecs

But nowadays most codecs are supported natively by MPlayer.

To get DVD decryption run

apt-get install libdvdcss

MPlayer and therefore KPlayer support all types of video. What are you trying to play? Look in your File Associations, KPlayer should be listed for all of them. If it's not the top program, then move it to the top. You can do the same for embedded videos, KPlayer plays those as well.

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smithxi

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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 7:46pm

w32codecs and libdvdcss are not found.

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ipspeł

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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 8:52pm

Well, I see there is an amd64 libdvdcss2 in http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/libd/libdvdcss/

As for w32codecs, they are 32 bit and so are not for amd64, my bad. There are some amd64 binary codecs at http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ but like I said most codecs come with MPlayer itself, so you don't need to worry about binary ones unless you get a specific video file that requires them.

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smithxi

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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 9:22pm

so it will open say .mov files?

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ipspeł

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Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 9:29pm

Should play them just fine.

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