I\'m wanting to play a movie in the background with the volume muted, while listening to amarok. Only trouble is that when I mute the volume in mplayer, it mutes the volume in amarok. And the volume control in mplayer seems to scale the volume of amarok. i.e. if mplayers volume is low, all of amaroks sound is comparatively quiet.

Wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this? I\'ve searched the forums, but the only thing I could find was a post suggesting I check or uncheck the use hardware volume control checkbox in the settings. However, I note that with amarok 1.3 (i\'m using 1.3.1) that particular checkbox has been removed.

I\'m running ubuntu(breezy), amarok 1.3.1, using the gstreamer engine(though the same thing seems to happen when I use the arts engine). The output plugin is set to artsdink, though it didn\'t seem to matter which output plugin I used (though one gave me choppy sound and alsadink didn\'t play at all).

If anyone has any suggestions I\'d be grateful.

cheers.
ben.

Quick fix: Set the audio out for mplayer to null. Thus, it will never output any sound (thus is muted).

Also, seriously consider upgrading amarok, to at least 1.3.9

have Mplayer use a software mixer and Alsa. That will solve the problem.





-Feld

that seems to have done the trick quite nicely thakn you.