This is a followup to Somehow managed to mute mplayer and can't figure out how to restore sound.I've noticed that the sound level settings in mplayer are saved on exit. However, I can't figure out where they are saved. There are config files in the .mplayer directory, but none of them are being written to.This is on Debian wheezy with mplayer version 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn3454.
Where are the sound level settings for mplayer saved?
configuration;mplayer
PulseAudio stores stream state for each app independently. This lets you (for example) set your music player to a lower volume than your instant message alert tone, so you hear the IM alert over the music.If you have PulseAudio's module-stream-restore loadedand the default config loads it, then these settings will be saved when you exit the program and loaded back when you start it again.The settings are saved in ~/.pulse/stream-volumes.tdb.The easiest way to change them is by starting mplayer again, and then using one of the many PulseAudio UIs, e.g., command-line pactl, GUI pavucontrol, etc. to change it. If mplayer is using the PulseAudio mixer (likely), then you can also try m, 9, and 0 (mplayer's default mute and volume keys).