MPlayer Volume
I use MPlayer to play all my videos and movies on my tablet. That way I dont need to spend the time to convert them to the format the default media player wants. But a problem that I quicky ran into was that unless my surounding enviroment is compoletly silent, I couldent hear anything, even with all the volume bars maxed out. But this was not the case with audio files, I could hear them just fine. So this is how to increase the default max volume in mplayer.
Mplayer uses a config file found in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf to get its settings, all we need to do is add 2 lines to it. Here are the 2 lines.
softvol-max = 500
"softvol = yes" tells MPlayer to use a software volume controll on top of the hardware one. "softvol-max = 500" Tells it the max value to allow the volume to operate at. It is a percent so 100 would be unchanged, 200 would be double. the max it allows is 10000, but be carfull, if what you are playing is already loud you can dammage your speakers. I dont recomend setting it higher than 500.
I do plan on making a deb that you can install which will automaticky increase your volume, but untill then this is the way to do it.