Cannot change the volume - it starts at 0 and stays there

[Wowbagger]

Binary package hint: me-tv

When playing an ATSC stream, the initial volume is set to zero, and there is no way to change the volume that I can find - no menu entry, no context menu entry, no obvious keybinding.

As such no audio is generated.

Steps to reproduce:
Start me-tv.
Tune to an ATSC stream.
Expected results: audio is heard through the speakers
Actual results: no audio is heard.
Additional data: other programs do play audio - e.g. xine will play the same stream with audio after turning the volume on xine up.

System information:
 lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
apt-cache policy me-tv
me-tv:
  Installed: 0.7.16-1
  Candidate: 0.7.16-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.16-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status