[solinari6]

I can't figure this one out. This happens for all my videos... quicktime will startup and play the video, but will have the volume cranked up all the way to the max! I turn the volume down half way, but it doesn't remember that next time it starts up. I can't find any preferences anywhere to set default volume either. Am I missing something?

[BuonRotto]

Not to sound obnoxious, but have you tried turning down your system volume?

Each movie has its own volume preset. Unfortunately, like other things with Quicktime, IIRC it requires QT Pro to save the change in volume. Dumb, I know. (I have QT Pro, so if it isn't required for this, then good!)

[Brad]

Volume is saved as an attribute in the movie files themselves, not the player's preferences. By default, movie files are created with the volume at 100%.

If you want to change the default volume for a specific movie, lower it and save the file.

And, yeah, what BR said.

[solinari6]

Well, my system volume is set at the proper level for listening to music and whatever. I don't want to have to monkey with that whenever I start up a movie. It's the QP volume slider that is always all the way to the right. So I have to manually set the volume of each movie I have, and the save it?

That kind of blows. I wish I could get windows media player to play mpeg4 movies on my mac, then I could stop using this stupid QP player alltogether.

[murbot]

I have a lot of movies that are loud. I have my system volume at one bar, speakers, just under half, then suddenly there is this loud "oh look how hard you are, big boy" blaring through the house.

Annoying.

[Paul]

Look into VLC and/or MplayerOSx. They both play a lot more formats then QT AND they both have a "playlist" function that will save the volume of the player GLOBALLY rather then on a per-movie basis.

[solinari6]

Originally Posted by Paul Look into VLC and/or MplayerOSx. They both play a lot more formats then QT AND they both have a "playlist" function that will save the volume of the player GLOBALLY rather then on a per-movie basis.

Thanks Paul, that MplayerOSx looks pretty cool. I'll try it out tonight! If I do decide I like it, how do I make all my movies open with it? (just switched over from windows, and haven't figure out how program associations work yet...)

[Brad]

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