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Looks like it is now fixed in the upcoming version 2.0.2: http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6511

Thank you jbutler for your additional feedback. I browsed the bug tracker and found some bug reports that indicates that the issue is caused by VLC 2.0.1 always using the first non-disabled playback device it encounters when enumerating audio playback devices, even if that device is not marked as de...

I had this issue as well, and I was able to work around it by disabling an audio playback device in Windows 7 mostly like Teleschinken described above. However, in my case the new playback device was not created by VLC as speculated by Teleschinken. My onboard sound card (Realtek ALC1200) on my Asus...