Multimedia apps keep messing with my volume

[Konstantin Svist]

On 02/01/2010 04:29 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Monday 01 February 2010 09:31:38 Konstantin Svist wrote:
>   
>> VLC, Mplayer, etc. -- whenever I play some clip, the volume control is
>> adjusted. Sometimes it goes to 100%, sometimes to 0, and other times to
>> something random inbetween.
>> How do I make it stop?!
>>     
> You've probably disabled pulseaudio. Live with the consequences, what can I 
> say... :-)
>
> Best, :-)
> Marko
>
>
>   

I did no such thing.
In fact, just now I checked that VLC uses pulse as audio output.