pulseaudio / totem issue, giving me heart attack

[vinboy]

hi
everytime totem starts to play a file, it reset the pulseaudio's volume level, thus boosting the volume up significantly.... I always got shocked by it...
Please take a look at this recorded screen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyKz6f5PFko

Please advise..
thanks

[Silpheed2K]

You may want to try removing and reinstalling pulseaudio to see if that fixes anything.
or you can try this
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=225660

beyond that, I wont know much on why it's resetting your volume controls.
So I hope that helps at least somewhat.

[fart_flower]

Originally Posted by vinboy

hi
everytime totem starts to play a file, it reset the pulseaudio's volume level, thus boosting the volume up significantly.... I always got shocked by it...
Please take a look at this recorded screen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyKz6f5PFko

Please advise..
thanks

Looking at your video, the behaviour appears identical to my Gnome desktop when it plays any window and/or buttons sounds. I made a post several weeks ago:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=223400

Another person seems to be having similar problems. Maybe.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=223571

But, yeah, your video duplicates the behaviour I see, but with window and button sounds instead of Totem.

[vinboy]

problem not fixed... bump

[AdamW]

it's a fairly common bug (for some people the volume goes down, not up):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488532

[nulli_secundus]

I removed Pulseaudio totally, and my sound works much better now

[redseventyseven]

in the pulseaudio manager, I noticed there were two instances of the GNOME Volume Control under the "Clients" tab. So I killed one and now the volume doesn't reset (it was moving to almost-mute on the first track change, then completely mute on the second).

However now my volume-up/volume-down/mute buttons on my keyboard don't work.