wine, mixer pcm volume reset to 0:0

[Kris Moore]

Sven Schellack wrote:
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:38:56 +0100
>> Von: Kjell Tore Ullavik <ktullavik at gmail.com>
>> An: emulation at freebsd.org, gerald at FreeBSD.org
>> Betreff: Re: wine, mixer pcm volume reset to 0:0
> 
>> Kjell Tore Ullavik wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I played around with wine-1.1.17. I don't know why it's marked ignore, 
>>> it works for me on CURRENT (with windows firefox
>>> and flash 10 among other things)
>>>
>>> Anyway, I dicovered a regression since wine-1.1.0. When using music 
>>> players like Winamp and Spotify, the mixer pcm
>>> volume keeps beeing reset to 0:0 between each song beeing played. If I 
>>> do 'mixer pcm 100:100'
>>> I can hear the rest of the song, before volume is set to 0:0 again.
>>>
>>> Affected systems:
>>> FreeBSD 8 CURRENT
>>> wine-1.1.17
>>>
>>> FreeBSD 7 STABLE from july.
>>> wine-1.1.16
>>>
>>> Not affected:
>>> FreeBSD 7 STABLE from july
>>> wine-1.1.0
>>>
>>> Applications tested:
>>> Winamp 5 Lite 5.551
>>> Spotify 0.3.11
>>>
>>>
>> Further testing shows this regression was introduced with wine-1.1.6, 
>> and is still present in wine-1.1.18 (released yesterday).
> 
> Hi,
> sounds a bit like http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15710 - I could reproduce this behaviour with several games. World of Warcraft for example starts muted and gets muted again each time you'll change to another zone or re-log with a different character.

I've seen this here in other games, such as TeamFortress 2 / Steam 
games. They start muted, but if you turn the volume up in mixer, its 
back to normal until you run them again. Any ideas on a fix?


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Kris Moore
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