gnome-mplayer-1.0.3 sound issues

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This version has a lot of picture quality improvements (or maybe different
default settings?) so I switched to it (USE="alsa dbus libnotify").
Unfortunately, the sound issues make it almost unusable:

I have ThinkPad T400 with Intel 82801I (ICH9) sound card, 2.6.37-r4 kernel with
ALSA support and XFCE4 stable.

I can select "Audio Output" (Player tab): 
with "Default" I can hardly hear any sound (with PCM and Master over 90% !),
with "HDA Intel (CONNEXANT Analog) it's a bit louder but volume settings apply
mostly to the left channel (why?); the channels differ,
with "HDA Intel (Connexant Digital) there is no sound at all.

"Mplayer Software Volume Control Enabled" (MPlayer tab) doesn't work at all no
matter which "Audio Output" is selected. No effect.

The option: "-af volume=20:0" works perfect if I use mplayer from the command
line. Putting it to "Extra Options to Mplayer" (MPlayer tab) has no effect.

Didn't have such issues with the previous version.
TVtime and Audacious work perfect. Doesn't seem to be issue with my sound card.

Reproducible: Always

Gentoo bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366449

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kozlo...@mini.pw.edu.pl on 8 May 2011 at 3:59

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I believe these problems are fixed in SVN just some notes

1. Default always uses softvol, so if you are getting sound softvol is working
2. HDA Intel I'm guessing is an Alsa device, and it is correct that only one 
channel was updated, this has been fixed
3. HDA Intel (Digital) requires that you have something (ie a receiver) plugged 
into the digital out (SPDIF) connector of your sound card, most likely you don't

1.0.2 was the version of the software that introduced all the changes to sound 
control, so I'm surprised that you say the problems started with 1.0.3. 1.0.3 
was a rework of the code to support gsettings.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 8 May 2011 at 4:16

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"1.0.2 was the version of the software that introduced all the changes to sound 
control, so I'm surprised that you say the problems started with 1.0.3. 1.0.3 
was a rework of the code to support gsettings."

Gentoo offers 1.0.0 and 1.0.3-r2 only :-) I've never used 1.0.2.

Original comment by kozlo...@mini.pw.edu.pl on 8 May 2011 at 4:32

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Interesting... I wonder what 1.0.3r2 contains.. is there a changelog for the 
patches made? Anyway, problems were noticed in 1.0.3 and they should be 
corrected now in SVN

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 8 May 2011 at 6:32

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Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 25 May 2011 at 7:34

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