Author Topic: Mute, Vol+, Vol- indication on the screen  (Read 3413 times)

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Mute, Vol+, Vol- indication on the screen
« on: January 26, 2009, 11:38:47 am »
Hi,

I'd like to know if it's possible to have Mute, Vol+, Vol- indication on TV/monitor during playback video? For example, VDR can show Mute, Vol+, Vol-. Maybe the same can be done with Xine/mplayer?

TIA
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Re: Mute, Vol+, Vol- indication on the screen
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2010, 01:39:53 pm »
I'd like to know as well because not having any mute on/off feedback is very frustrating when trying to figure out sound problems.  If the capability is not present then I would suggest that it be added to provide the user some feedback as to the current state. Just showing the current state for a second or two whenever it is changed would be satisfactory.

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Re: Mute, Vol+, Vol- indication on the screen
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2010, 08:32:07 pm »
I'm currently using the TV for volume control, but when I switch to a receiver I think this would be a nice feature.  To up the ante a bit, it would be nice if one could toggle this on and off.  Those using TV volume probably don't want to see the TV and LMCE feedback onscreen. 

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Re: Mute, Vol+, Vol- indication on the screen
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2010, 10:03:44 pm »
nite_man,
Hi,

I'd like to know if it's possible to have Mute, Vol+, Vol- indication on TV/monitor during playback video? For example, VDR can show Mute, Vol+, Vol-. Maybe the same can be done with Xine/mplayer?

TIA

This will be possible with our new re engineered MPlayer_Player which I´m working on.
Focus is to get basic functionality to work. As in play, stop, pause and ff/rew. All these work now and I am doing debugging and code cleanup.
There´s a couple of things still to sort out. Atm I have no way to get timecode back to lmce.

/niz23

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Re: Mute, Vol+, Vol- indication on the screen
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2010, 09:12:42 am »
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This will be possible with our new re engineered MPlayer_Player which I´m working on.

That's really good!
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Re: Mute, Vol+, Vol- indication on the screen
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2010, 11:11:59 am »
nite_man,
Hi,

I'd like to know if it's possible to have Mute, Vol+, Vol- indication on TV/monitor during playback video? For example, VDR can show Mute, Vol+, Vol-. Maybe the same can be done with Xine/mplayer?

TIA

This will be possible with our new re engineered MPlayer_Player which I´m working on.
Focus is to get basic functionality to work. As in play, stop, pause and ff/rew. All these work now and I am doing debugging and code cleanup.
There´s a couple of things still to sort out. Atm I have no way to get timecode back to lmce.

/niz23

Niz,

I remember a discussion ages ago with Aaron about MPlayer and getting timecode back to lmce never worked back then either. I know thats no much help at all however!

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