From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 11 01:23:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939971065670 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:23:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xkyanh@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603908FC1B for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:23:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xkyanh@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so1123232wfg.7 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:23:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization:x-operating-system :user-agent:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=adqbisQk+4nvOJOglYjHFffh6EiDbleLfU08rsrR7fc=; b=vb1sVT5jH0MjL0V3nAskVMwiMNwhhcYssvCdlr7uaZWiwdx/Q27jHAymhBTwvlQy4o 3lfQGwJbe8GZHsy8IzXv6ZcWEE+HxADrAzc4UdAzalIZwzsse5So1lF8p+RquUF8lGse 4FBMkL929j4rnYkJ/Tdu2zbE1Q0fCmeXkAAk4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-operating-system:user-agent:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=ZWOaDJXkFhFZKRL1By8ROXeQj3sn0CDypZhxbO+aOp60/spSwceBBaO2JDaU67nZgy I0uI+xDMZl8p1fgj20phhK8EjgftJnym2/3MLmZ1JWD4xJ/YnvVnyCg0MvxXbl/USsox LaYh2/BElX+I1HhUrcPGHphbaZGUhkdV80oY0= Received: by 10.142.13.14 with SMTP id 14mr1578363wfm.52.1239413018788; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from icy.local ([115.76.77.153]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 27sm6232720wfa.10.2009.04.10.18.23.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:23:26 +0700 From: kyanh To: Wes Morgan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090411082326.2dd59fb3@icy.local> In-Reply-To: References: <20090410205135.2a813f34@icy.local> Organization: Vietnamese TeX Users Group X-Operating-System: Windows 98 User-Agent: Moveup browser X-Mailer: Moveup mail client (windows 98) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: sound configuration for pidgin X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:23:39 -0000 On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:06:39 -0500 (CDT) Wes Morgan wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, kyanh wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring > > Pidgin, I use mplayer %s > > to make Pidgin play stuff. But it's hard to hear the sound as > > pidgin's volume is small (while the system mixer is almost > > 100:100). Is there anyway to have a bigger sound in Pidgin? > > > > Thank you! > > I would recommend installing the audio/normalize port, and using > that to increase the volume of the sound files. If you don't want > to alter the audio files, try using this as your sound command: > > mplayer -af volume=20 %s Thank you. I didn't read carefully mplayer's man page. When I use `mplayer -af volume=n` within `n > 10`, I get so much noises. The acceptable value is 9 or 10. The sound files are taken from default installation of Pidgin, and I shouldnot ormalize them :) -- unless I want some lourder notifications. Regards, -- Ky Anh, Huynh Homepage: http://viettug.org/