Multimedia apps keep messing with my volume

[Philip Heron]

On 01/02/2010 17:00, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> 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.

Apparently it's a feature. Try this in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf to disable it:

flat-volumes = no

Logout and in again or reboot for it to take effect. Did the trick here.

-Phil