[Solved] Windows sound = OK, MP sound = dimmed (1 Viewer)

[Peter2]

Hi guys,

Since a few days, the sound of my client is very dimmed.
I checked the windows settings and they seem to be ok & the sound level is normal.
In MP though, even being on maximum, it's very quiet.
No settings have been changed, no windows updates or modifications.
Volume settings in MP:

• Control: Master Volume
• Scale: Logarithmic

Any idea what might be wrong?
TIA
P²

 

[HomeY]

Set the scale to win 7 and try again

 

[Peter2]

Hi HomeY,

Thank you for your quick response but sadly enough, that didn't change anything.
Music plays well with wmplayer and speaker test in W7 gives the right sound level.
I always had the scale on Classic until I discovered Logarithmic which was exactly what I wanted.
When I switched that setting, I also had some strange behavior of the OSD and no immediate response but by fiddling and rebooting, finally it was ok.
I also did a reinstall of MP since it was upgrade multiple times, so installed 1.4 from scratch - removed all settings/cached stuff.

P.

 

[HomeY]

Hmm..... according to the Wiki it should be automatically selected for Win 7.

Maybe you have a mixer function enabled in your codecs somewhere, or altered the volume in your codec settings?

 

[Vasilich]

check windows mixer settings while mp is running: in Windows 7 there is dedicated volume slider for every application producing sound. Maybe this slider for MP isn't at 100% as it should be

 

[Peter2]

It was indeed the mixer settings but I don't understand how this could happen...
The mixer/volume tray app are on hidden and there is no mouse connected to that client.
Anyway, it works now.
Thanks a lot guys!!

 

[eRJe]

I too had this exact same problem a few times over the last few weeks. I'm not 100% sure but I think in my situation it was somehow related to Windows Media Center. WMC was started (in background) the few times it occured. Last time it occured was when I uninstalled WMC with MP running in the background.