Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:23:26 +0700 From: kyanh <xkyanh@gmail.com> To: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sound configuration for pidgin Message-ID: <20090411082326.2dd59fb3@icy.local> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904101903520.1532@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> References: <20090410205135.2a813f34@icy.local> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904101903520.1532@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet>
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On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:06:39 -0500 (CDT) Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> 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/
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