On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:52:12PM EST, Peter Chubb wrote: > Hi folks, > I've recently acquired a bluetooth headset capable of a2dp > streaming. After a lot of mucking around I've managed to get it > sort-of working with mplayer. But I can't wwork out how to adjust > the volume. > > I do > mplayer -ao alsa:device=bluetooth file.ogg > and I get sound from the headset. But alsamixer doesn't see the > mixer, and it's too loud. Mplayer's volume control says it has > changed the volume, but it doesn't seem to make a difference --- > even when mplayer reports 0% there's still lots of volume.
Probably the ALSA interface to bluetooth is not working very well. What alsa-lib and bluez versions are you using? > And > cat /proc/asound/devices > shows only the on-board Intel sound card, not bluetooth. Thats because ALSA bluetooth support is via an alsa plugin provided by the bluez package, as all audio goes via the bluez stack. Luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
