[SOLVED] Audio gain issues in Celluloid

[Fuzzy]

It has taken me a while to get used to using Celluloid over VLC or some other player, but I've grown to love it.

An odd thing happened today though - I had been using BlueTooth to connect to my speakers, and I changed to a physical analog jack. When I did so - the audio on my system remained "normal" except for media files playing in Celluloid/mpv. The audio in Celluloid went down to a whisper. I can crank the volume of Celluloid up to 100% (or more), and crank my system volume up to 100% (both using the default Cinnamon panel volume options, and also the volume slider within Celluloid), but then the audio levels of Celluloid are still only at the lowest level I would normally listen to things. No room to turn the volume up if necessary.

I found that if I used

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mpv --replaygain-preamp=10 whatever.mp3

in a terminal - it works great! Problem solved. However, if I place

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replaygain-preamp=10

into mpv.conf - it does nothing. Also, that same --replaygain-preamp line throws an error when I attempt to use it in a terminal call to celluloid (celluoid --replaygain-preamp=10) It doesn't know what the --replaygain-preamp option is. Likewise, when I go into Celluloid's preferences and manually point it to the mpv.conf file - it seems to totally ignore it.

I did find that by putting

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volume=100
volume-max=120

into my mpv.conf file, that MPV works perfectly every time - so I can pass things to MPV via script, etc. and everything plays just fine. However, even when I have pointed Celluloid to the mpv.conf file - it ignores it. So the audio gain issue remains in Celluloid, even though it is resolved for MPV. I'm a little confused because I though Celluloid was just a front end for mpv, so I'm not sure I understand why things aren't jiving.

Thanks,
Fuzzy

[MrEen]

First thing I'd suggest is deleting the files in /home/YourUserName/.config/pulse then run pulseaudio -k in the terminal.

An alternative might be to use pavucontrol instead of the Cinnamon sound app and look at the Playback tab. Chances are the Celluloid volume was dropped there.

[Fuzzy]

Thanks MrEen!

I tried your first suggestion of deleting the files in /home/UserName/.config/pulse, then running pulseaudio -k in the terminal. Everything went back to normal and is now working as expected! Thanks!

That cookie and those tdb files seem odd to me. I looked around, but I haven't been able to find a description of what purpose they serve. Any ideas?

Thanks again for fixing the issue for me - marking as SOLVED.

Fuzzy

[MrEen]

The cookie is a mystery to me. The tbl files are the ones I most suspect of being corruptible. Deleting them forces PulseAudio to generate a fresh set and this is always a best first step when properly working audio stops working properly.

I actually tried to hack one of the tbl files to find a command line way of adjusting the system sounds volume, but all I achieved was to cause a complete loss of audio.