Media player and system volume

[tslim]

Hi,

I normally use Media Player Classic to play video.

While watching video, if I mute sound, change volume level (normally this means the WAV volume level is changed), the program actually achieves volume adjustment by adjusting my system volume. What frustrate me a lot is, it never restores my system volume levels as when the program is started. So I must manually adjust the volume level back after I close the player.

Is there any video player which won't change my system volume even if I adjust volume level while watching movie with it?
Or alternatively, is there any utility that I can run to restore my system volume to some preset levels (say something I save in a config file)?

[eleman]

Do you run media player classic from a shortcut, or do you run it by double-clicking on media files?

If you do the first, I think an autohotkey script can do the job.

[tslim]

Do you run media player classic from a shortcut, or do you run it by double-clicking on media files?

If you do the first, I think an autohotkey script can do the job.

-eleman (December 22, 2011, 04:31 AM)

Both.
But I would say I normally double-click on a media file.

[AndyM]

Do you run media player classic from a shortcut, or do you run it by double-clicking on media files?

If you do the first, I think an autohotkey script can do the job.

-eleman (December 22, 2011, 04:31 AM)

If you have a working AHK script, you could make it the default opening behavior for double-clicking on .wav files and cover both options.

[eleman]

If you have a working AHK script, you could make it the default opening behavior for double-clicking on .wav files and cover both options.

-AndyM (December 22, 2011, 10:51 AM)

I can envisage a AHK script using soundget and soundset, but I don't know how to make it run by double-clicking on any file type? Any tips?

[skwire]

the program actually achieves volume adjustment by adjusting my system volume

-tslim (December 22, 2011, 04:23 AM)

This is very odd as I've NEVER had MPC adjust the system volume.  It's always adjusted its own internal volume.

[skwire]

Under View, Options, Playback, Output, Audio Renderer:  Change it to System Default and see if that solves things.

[tslim]

the program actually achieves volume adjustment by adjusting my system volume

-tslim (December 22, 2011, 04:23 AM)

This is very odd as I've NEVER had MPC adjust the system volume.  It's always adjusted its own internal volume.

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Under View, Options, Playback, Output, Audio Renderer:  Change it to System Default and see if that solves things.

-skwire (December 22, 2011, 11:01 AM)

I am not familiar with how MPC work internally, but isn't it suppose to not tuning my system volume levels for whatever audio render choice I made?

In fact, my PC has onboard audio and a Creative Sound card both active and each takes care of their own speaker set. One of the set of speaker I only switch on while watching DTS movies wherelse the other set of speaker is my day to day use PC audio output. So, as you can see, if I stick to MPC as my player, my Audio Render can not be a fix one, I need to switch it between my movie watching session and normal PC working session.

I have just solved the above problem:
I create an AutoIt (script base) exe which always adjust back my Wav level to 65%, I then have MacroExpress auto run the exe every time MPC is closing.

Just to share my experience in MacroExpress with everyone here: I have been a user of MacroExpress for many years, recently I have upgraded to its PRO version. It has features to adjust most of the system volume except for Wav... Sarcastically, I have to resort to a freeware scripting program...

I dislike MacroExpress Pro's way of accepting user suggestion and  dislike very very much their hostile user forum.