Re: [Alsa-user] muting mplayer without muting 'PCM' sound

[Louis-David M. <vin...@ap...>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 12:12:16PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On 6/5/07, Louis-David Mitterrand <vin...@ap...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way to mute mplayer's sound without muting alsa's PCM device?
> > (while keeping the ability to unmute, so no "mplayer -ao null")
> >
> > I'd like to be able to keep listening music with xmms while monitoring a
> > mute TV screen in mplayer. Unfortunately when I 'm' mplayer it cuts
> > xmms' sound as well.
> 
> This would have to be implemented by the mplayer developers.

I just discovered that mplayer has a -softvol switch that does just 
that.