[vlc-devel] Regarding bug #3913 (cli volume option)

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 22:59:59 -0400, Will Reiter <reiterwill777 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm 99.99% sure that the last good version was 1.0.5.
> 
> Why I know: I use my PC for an alarm clock, and to wake me I use
> Windows Task Manager to run a certain sound file through VLC at a
> specified volume. When this bug showed up, I had to install a portable
> VLC in a separate dir to be able to keep using VLC to wake me up. My
> portable VLC is version 1.0.5.

The volume handling in VLC 1.1.x is undecipherable and universally hated
by all developers, except its author (as far as I know). And as you see, it
is buggy. 

Please retry with VLC 1.2.

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