Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!ppp18.cac.psu.edu!rps8 From: rps8@psu.edu (Ralf Southard) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech,alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: How to keep Quicktime volume down? Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 20:23:55 GMT Organization: CAC Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp18.cac.psu.edu X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B] Xref: cdrom.com comp.multimedia:6411 comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech:1082 alt.cd-rom:7504 In article hal@osf.org (Hal Lichtin) writes: >From: hal@osf.org (Hal Lichtin) >Subject: How to keep Quicktime volume down? >Date: 28 Jul 1994 19:05:09 GMT >Folks > >I have been having problems with Quick Time for Windows movies setting the >sound volume to maximum. This has occurred with at least 3 CDs, including >the third Club Kidsoft disk (e.g., the "Club News" movie) and both discs >that came with the latest (Aug/Sept) CD-ROM Today (e.g., the Leonardo >Demo). The Leonardo Demo is particularly irritating, as it keep reseting >the volume to full blast each time it (presumably) plays a new file, making >it totally unusable. The problem happened both before and after I >installed Video for Windows 1.1. It happens whether I just run the >application/demo that plays the .mov files or use the Microsoft Media >Player to play the file. The Quicktime for Windows 1.1 player has a volume >control, and it is always set on max when I open a new .mov file. (At >least I can turn it down before actually playing the file.) Yeah, what's up with that? It doesn't seem to matter what sound card, system, chip or whatever I'm using. Whne I click on a QuickTime movie and run it, the Volume is at MAX until I change it. Ralf