VLC setting volume from command line/bash [closed]

Question

With the risk of feeling really really stupid here, but I seem not to be able to set the volume of VLC from command line??

vlc file.mp3 --vol 0

I have read the man pages as well as googled but I can not get the above to work. Also tried --volume 0, -vol 0, -volume 0 (as well as putting the volume option before the file name).

No matter, VLC starts with its preset volume. Using VLC 1.1.5 on Ubuntu. (I intend to use the line in a bash script therefore I can not use the VLC GUI) /J

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Update

I have tried different values. I now run vlc with very verbose. This section looks a bit suspicious (but I have no idea how to interpret it!):

[0xb7108d14] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-9483), dropping buffer
[0xb7108d14] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-35533), dropping buffer
[0x94384ac] mpgatofixed32 audio filter debug: libmad error: bad main_data_begin pointer
[0xb7108d14] pulse audio output debug: Pulse stream started
[0xb7108d14] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (86708)
Warning: call to rand()
[0xb7108d14] main audio output warning: buffer is 86706 late, triggering upsampling
[0xb7104654] qt4 interface debug: IM: Setting an input
[0xb7108d14] main audio output warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (44448)
[0xb7108d14] main audio output warning: audio drift is too big (130928), dropping buffer
[0x94384ac] mpgatofixed32 audio filter debug: libmad error: bad main_data_begin pointer
[0xb7108d14] main audio output debug: audio output is starving (20040), playing silence
[0xb7108d14] main audio output warning: resampling stopped after 16895748 usec (drift: 19049)

Answer 1

Seems to be a known bug. Volume option doesn't have any effect