Re: mplayer has stopped controlling the volume.

> On 14 Feb 2022, at 20:54, arthurpeabody <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 	After a recent reboot mplayer stopped controlling the volume
> 	of audio output.  It reports no errors, acts as if it's
> 	controlling the volume, but it doesn't.
> 
> 	I can use amixer or alsamixer in another virtual terminal to
> 	control the volume, but that's inconvenient.

Have you tried the -mixer and -mixer-channel options?
They if it works with amixer you should know the right ones, and it should work no different from MPlayer than from these programs.

> I have to switch to control the hardware.
> When I run mplayer with -ao pulse or -ao alsa it returns 'audio device got stuck!' and makes no sound.

So what does it use then when it does not get stuck?
I am a little confused.
But overall it sounds like maybe some udev stuff decided to re-name your audio device and it's using something not suitable/working now?

Best regards,
Reimar