Quicktime default volume too loud!
I'm sitting at my computer late at night tonight, and I decide to look at one of the new ads on Apple's web site.
As has happened many times before, I have to leap for the volume control on the movie player, because, by default, the playback volume automatically starts at the highest setting. Even with my system-wide volume set to one notch above completely muted, a QuickTime movie with its own volume control at full is louder than I'd like it to be at night when other people are sleeping.
A burst of loud sound always escapes before I can get the volume turned down.
Is there anyway to make in-browser QuickTime playback default to a lower volume when it starts up? Or is there a way at least to make QuickTime pause at the beginning of clips so I can lower the volume before playback begins?
(BTW, I'm using USB speakers with no independent volume control of their own, so I can't solve my problem that way.)
As has happened many times before, I have to leap for the volume control on the movie player, because, by default, the playback volume automatically starts at the highest setting. Even with my system-wide volume set to one notch above completely muted, a QuickTime movie with its own volume control at full is louder than I'd like it to be at night when other people are sleeping.
A burst of loud sound always escapes before I can get the volume turned down.
Is there anyway to make in-browser QuickTime playback default to a lower volume when it starts up? Or is there a way at least to make QuickTime pause at the beginning of clips so I can lower the volume before playback begins?
(BTW, I'm using USB speakers with no independent volume control of their own, so I can't solve my problem that way.)
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<strong>Or is there a way at least to make QuickTime pause at the beginning of clips so I can lower the volume before playback begins?</strong><hr></blockquote>
yes. go to the preferences for QT and deselect "start movies as soon as they're loaded" or something.
[ 01-10-2003: Message edited by: Defiant ]</p>
<strong>how bout turning your system volume down? </strong><hr></blockquote>
As I originally wrote:
[quote]<strong>EVEN WITH MY SYSTEM-WIDE VOLUME SET TO ONE NOTCH ABOVE COMPLETELY MUTED, a QuickTime movie with its own volume control at full is louder than I'd like it to be at night when other people are sleeping.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Realize I'm not talking about blast-out-your-eardrums loud here. But still, even with the system volume as low as it can go, when QuickTime's own volume is up to full the sound is still too loud late at night.
Yes, I can turn QuickTime's volume down, but it always starts playing before I get a chance to do that.
<strong>yes. go to the preferences for QT and deselect "start movies as soon as they're loaded" or something.</strong><hr></blockquote>
As far as I can tell, this setting only applies to QuickTime documents that you launch from the desktop. QuickTime movies embedded within web pages start playing automatically for me no matter what I do.
<strong>yes. go to the preferences for QT and deselect "start movies as soon as they're loaded" or something.</strong><hr></blockquote>
[quote]Originally posted by me:
<strong>As far as I can tell, this setting only applies to QuickTime documents that you launch from the desktop. QuickTime movies embedded within web pages start playing automatically for me no matter what I do.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Okay... I had the player settings and the plug-in settings confused. Now I can stop QT movies from playing automatically.
Still, I'd really much rather have the movies start up automatically, but with QuickTime's own volume control at about the half-way point.
<strong>don't I get a cookie ? </strong><hr></blockquote>
Here ya go...
You'll get more and better cookies if you can figure out out to get QuickTime's default volume lower.
VOLUME=value (optional...requires QuickTime 3)
The VOLUME attribute sets the movie's initial audio volume. Only integer values between 0 through 100 are applied for this attribute. By default, VOLUME is set to 100. A setting of 0 effectively mutes the audio whereas a setting of 100 is the maximum volume.
For example:
<embed src="sample.mov" width="200" height="240" volume="50">
[ 01-11-2003: Message edited by: Defiant ]</p>
(To the developers. Check out Windows "registry" as a nice place to store a default.)
(To the developers. Check out Windows "registry" as a nice place to store a default.)
The malware developers have heard you loud and clear.
I haven't had this problem with Quicktime myself but then I keep my system volume fairly low. On some movies, I find Quicktime is actually too quiet and use VLC because it allows you to go to 200%. It defaults to 100% too though.
Quicktime also save changes to movies. If it defaulted to open files at 50% volume, it would save them at 50%, which might not be what you want.
In nine years Apple didn't notice these complaints nor bother fixing the problem.
Because there isn't one.
To have their QuickTime player begin ALWAYS playing at full blast is borderline sabatage of PC's (or is this a problem even on Macs).
It's a problem on neither system. QuickTime in OS X has its own audio slider, separate from the OS'. QuickTime in Windows not only has its own audio slider, but also has its audio controlled by that stupid audio manager in the OS where you can dictate the volume of each application running. To imply that QuickTime somehow hijacks your primary OS audio and turns that all the way up is nonsense.
Same problem here. And "lowering system volume" just is NOT the solution. System volume is OK for everything and then QuickTime comes YELLING in. That simply SUCKS! Really, didn't they just think of this?
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Originally Posted by riccardorb
…and then QuickTime comes YELLING in.
Except it doesn't…
if i remember right - the developer can choose what level the video plays at. So yes, just set your QT settings to NOT start automatically.
this is a general problem on the net. Youtube videos all play at different levels too.
maybe the browser should balance audio for us?
The mere fact that I have come back to this link twice and everyone is on this post, it means there is a usability problem.
Yes, I could lower my system control.
Regardless, Quicktime should start by default half volume not full volume.
Full stop.