Wayne D's Blog

Recently I upgraded the version of smplayer which the EEEPC uses to play video. In the process I managed to break it so the volume control in smplayer no longer worked. Smplayer is an mplayer wrapper and mplayer also lost it's ability to change the volume from inside the player. A bit of digging turned up the answer, somehow the video players were using the wrong sound driver. The sound still worked but the volume didn't. Once I figured this out the fix was simple. For mplayer I added the line ao="alsa" to the file config which is found in the .mplayer subdirectory of my home directory. For smplayer I changed the line ao=oss to ao=alsa in the smplayer.ini. smplayer.ini is found in the .smplayer folder in your home directory.