On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 01:06:23PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: > Hi, > I've bought myself a bluetooth headset and am streaming audio > to it using mplayer. How do I control its volume? Usually, hitting / > or * decreases or increases the volume, but mplayer thinks it's > sending at 0% volume and it's still a little too loud!
have you tried changing the volume with alsamixer, mplayer only changes 1 volume control and it might not be the right one > > The hardest part about making this thing to work at all, BTW, was getting > it to peer. If you don't use a gui desktop, you seem to be in > trouble. And most of the howtos aren't helpful -- they all assume you > have the GTK libraries or have Gnome or something, or are so old that > the codebase has moved on a lot. The trick is to put the MAC/Pin pair > into /var/lib/bluetooth/DONGLEMAC/pincodes where DONGLEMAC is the mac > address of the bluetooth adapter. > > -- > Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au > http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- "In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard. " - George W. Bush First presidential debate Repeating the phrases hard work, working hard, hard choices, and other hard-based verbiage 22 times in his first debate with Sen. John Kerry
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