sound preferences for Movie browser plugin not remembered

[richard mullens]

Binary package hint: gnome-media

Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04

gnome-media:
  Installed: 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I have some mp3 files on a website.
When I click on one (using firefox) the mp3 starts to play but it is inaudible.
So I click on the loudspeaker applet symbol on the top panel and select sound preferences
I then select the "Applications" tab and adjust the Movie browser plugin volume control to the desired volume.
After that song is finished I click on a new mp3 (or the same one) - but I have to go through the same process again to hear the new song.

I believe that the Movie browser plugin volume setting should be remembered.

[Flávio Martins (flavioxmartins)]

"movie browser plugin" has volume at 0% by default. (checked with the sound preferences applet)
There is no way to set the volume to e.g: 100% and have it saved for the next time a video is played in the browser.
Tested with Chromium and Firefox, both with the same behavior.
This is probably attributable to totem and/or pulseaudio. Setting totem for now.

[JonathanHard (jonathanhard)]

same problem here.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

This looks like a duplicate of Bug 527432 .

[richard mullens (richard-mullens)]

Thank you.

It does help to execute the comand gconftool --type int --set /apps/totem/volume 100 as recommended for https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527432 - but now the volume is set to 100 as the default - so if one adjusts the volume to, say, 50 then the next time one plays an MP3 it starts at 100 again.

This seems to be in contrast to the behaviour when one plays an aif file - for example http://www.mandarintools.com/sounds/wo3.aif - the volume for this filetype is (and was before) remembered.

[richard mullens (richard-mullens)]

My mistake. The sound level for an aif file is remembered by the movie player rather than the firefox plugin. However, I'm still of the opinion that the volume level should be remembered by the plugin.