Forcing volume to a certain level?

[mithas]

Hi,

I'm using Mint Linux 14 and the onboard soundcard/speaker. I'm trying to find a way to control the volume from the command line/cron, so that users can't turn the volume up too loud.

Anyone got any ideas around this?

Many thanks,

Simon

[catweazel]

If it's for work machines, ok, but it's not going to be very helpful if it's for a home machine. Videos are notorious for having wildly differing volume levels. Nevertheless, this is what you need:

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amixer --help