VLC has been downloaded over a billion times

Re:VLC has been downloaded over a billion times by cellularmitosis on Monday May 14, 2012 @02:26PM (#3972414)

I tried MPlayer OSX once, and found that it turned my mac's volume up to max everytime I played a video. Sorry guys, endangering my audio equipment is terminally bad QA in my book. No thanks.

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Re:VLC has been downloaded over a billion times by oldschooltaper on Monday May 14, 2012 @04:21PM (#3973045)

If OSX is anything like other OS's, you have to turn down the volume through OSX, not mplayer. mplayer's volume control is a way to "fine tune" the system volume. It sounds like your system volume is set high to begin with. Lower it. Then launch mplayer.

I would tell you how but I don't use OSX. Surely someone else can tell you, or you could learn yourself. It's worth learning how to use mplayer, if you are serious about audio.

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Re:VLC has been downloaded over a billion times by cellularmitosis on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @12:37AM (#3974913)

Actually, it turn(ed) the system volume all the way up.

But mplayer (command line) itself is awesome. It's the only thing I use on Linux.

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