No sound works from anything other than sound test

http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=03437ea8755ae35a62e10dc21c9850b5a30046c4

Hopefully the link above helps someone that may understand it better than I do.

I have sound when I use the sound test feature. When I try to play audio or video, it won’t play at all. Video portion of audio video will not play either.

I installed the latest codecs according to another forum thread whose instructions I followed.

I’ve spent about the whole day trying to figure this out. I have everything working but my sound.

Could someone look at my link above and help me understand what my problem might be?

Thanks so much!!!

Brandon

Install alsamixer-gui and start it. Open all output channels and see if it works.
Very often the PCM channel defaults to muted.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I only have one problem. When I try to install it through the “install software” interface, I can search for it, find the .rpm, but the option to selection it for install (checkbox is dimmed out and not selectable) is not there.

If I paypaled you some money for your time, could you help me figure that out?

Thanks again!!!

I do NOT think this is a mixer problem. Your PCM levels are fine. They were in the link in your post for anyone to read. I quote from the link in your post:
!!Amixer output
!!-------------

!!-------Mixer controls for card 0 [Intel]

Card hw:0 ‘Intel’/‘HDA Intel at 0xfe8f4000 irq 22’
Mixer name : ‘Realtek ALC1200’
**Simple mixer control ‘Master’,0
** Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Mono: Playback 23 [74%] -12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control ‘PCM’,0
Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
I think your problem is a combination of codecs not being installed, and some other factors.

I confess, I’m from Missouri on this, and I would like to see what you have installed for codecs …

Please follow the guidance here:
Check your multimedia problem in ten steps - openSUSE Forums
and if that is too confusing then please post the output of:

rpm --query --all 'libav*' 'libpostproc*' 'libswscale*' '*xine*' '*gst*' '*layer*' '*vlc*' | grep -v avahi | sort

and also post the output of:

zypper lr -d

One final comment.

You have installed openSUSE-11.2 RC1.

That is for testing, NOT for general use.

OpenSUSE-11.2 GM version is available for download today. Rather than follow the above advice, I recommend you install the 11.2 GM version, and then after that is installed, we can address your codec problem.

Please note the guidance here:

I’m having the same problem as the original poster, except I have a fresh install of 11.2. I get sound within Amarok on a sound test, but can’t get any other sound other than at startup. I haven’t tried everything I can yet, but here is some of the output requested:

rpm --query --all ‘libav*’ ‘libpostproc*’ ‘libswscale*’ ‘xine’ ‘gst’ ‘layer’ ‘vlc’ | grep -v avahi | sort
flash-player-10.0.32.18-3.1.1.i586
gstreamer-0_10-0.10.24-3.1.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-0.10.24-2.4.i586
libgstapp-0_10-0-0.10.24-2.4.i586
libgstinterfaces-0_10-0-0.10.24-2.4.i586
libgstreamer-0_10-0-0.10.24-3.1.i586
libxine1-1.1.16.1-7.6.i586
libxine1-gnome-vfs-1.1.16.1-7.6.i586
libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.1-7.6.i586
phonon-backend-xine-4.3.1-3.3.i586
pullin-flash-player-11.2-2.1.i586
xinetd-2.3.14-143.2.i586

and:

1 | Packman_1 | Packman | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /packman/suse/11.2 |
2 | openSUSE:11.2:NonFree | openSUSE:11.2:NonFree | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss |
3 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.2-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
4 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss |
5 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
6 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.2-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
7 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.2-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.2 |

I’ve installed libdvdcss from videolan already and deleted the repository.

Any nudges in the right direction would be appreciated. I’m not sure there actually is a driver for my sound card which is an on-board card from Intel (82801JI, ICH10 family if I’m reading this right). Thanks in advance.

Ingvar

well, you have not installed any packman packaged multimedia applications. Note packman packaged applications have a “pm” in the version number.

Go to YaST > Software > Soft Repositories, and change the priority of Packman from 99 to 90.

Then go to YaST > Software > Software Management, and install smplayer, vlc, libffmpeg0, ffmpeg, libquicktime0, libxvidcore4, xvidcore, w32codec-all, libxine1, xine-ui

all from packman with “pm” in the version number.

and:

What repos is this:

2 | openSUSE:11.2:NonFree | openSUSE:11.2:NonFree | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss |

I recommend you disable it for the time being.

I just upgraded to the final version of 11.2. I still have the same sound issues.

You mentioned codecs. I already installed what I read to be a complete package of codecs. Do you recommend any particular essential codecs for my system ?

Thanks again!!!

I recommend you follow my post #5 above:
No sound works from anything other than sound test - openSUSE Forums
and post here the output like I requested.

flash-player-10.0.32.18-3.1.1.i586
gstreamer-0_10-0.10.24-3.1.x86_64
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-0.10.24-2.4.x86_64
libgstapp-0_10-0-0.10.24-2.4.x86_64
libgstinterfaces-0_10-0-0.10.24-2.4.x86_64
libgstreamer-0_10-0-0.10.24-3.1.x86_64
libgstreamer-0_10-0-32bit-0.10.24-3.1.x86_64
libxine1-1.1.16.1-7.6.x86_64
libxine1-gnome-vfs-1.1.16.1-7.6.x86_64
libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.1-7.6.x86_64
phonon-backend-xine-4.3.1-3.3.x86_64
pullin-flash-player-11.2-2.1.x86_64
xinetd-2.3.14-143.2.x86_64


| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

–±----------------±----------------±--------±--------±---------±------±-------±-------
1 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:/// |

I can get sound from Youtube I just found out. Anything online and the sound test works. Playing files and all else does not. I’ve got to be doing something simple wrong.

Clearly, you have NOT installed the codecs. You most DEFINITELY have not. Where did you read you had installed a complete package. That source is CLEARLY not to be relied upon IF you read it carefully. Are you certain you read it carefully?

Equally clear, your repositories are NOT setup.

Is this openSUSE-11.2 GM version?

I’m very surprised the repositories are not set up and this looks to me like an 11.2 RC version. I am not keen on an supporting an 11.2 RC version.

So my advice is for a GM version. If it does not work for an RC, well, then you better install a GM.

First thing, follow the advice here: Repositories/11.2 - openSUSE-Community
and setup ONLY oss, non-oss, update and packman. Just those 4. No others none. I repeat. ONLY THOSE 4!! Give packman a priority of 80. Give the rest a priority of 99.

Now, after that is complete, and ONLY after that is complete, go to YaST > software > Software management and change the “filter” to “search” and search for and select to install packman packaged versions (replacing ANY novell / suse-gmbh packaged versions) of the follow apps: smplayer, vlc, libxine1, xine-ui, ffmpeg, libffmpeg0, w32codec-all, libxvidcore4, xvidcore, libquicktime0

Note you can tell packman packaged versions by the “pm” in the version number.

In fact, in almost all cases you can replace an openSUSE packaged version by a Packman packaged version, if a packman packaged version is available.

You are a god!

Sound works on all fronts.

Hopefully I wasn’t too much trouble with all of my posts.

Thanks again!

I’ve installed everything you suggested and I can now play music in smplayer, but not amarok. I guess it’s an amarok issue now. I am used to using amarok so I’ll try to fix it. I’ve fixed a similar problem by changing the backend, but I can’t seem to do that now. Xine is the only option. So that may be where the problem lies.

I can also play videos and DVD’s. Thanks again for the help. All the best.

Ingvar

The problem with amarok is it has not yet been packaged for openSUSE-11.2 by the Packman packages. Give them some time.

If you have libxine1 installed from Packman, you could into Amarok’s preferences/setup, and change it to xine, and see if that helps.

Thanks for the reply. The issue was that there was no specific package from packman that seemed to be what I wanted. There was nothing specifically called “libxine1”. There’s a codec package but it isn’t the same and would require some other dependency changes that scared me off. So I will wait and see if something shows up on packman in the next few days or so. I am already using xine with Amarok. I don’t have a choice, it’s the only backend listed under settings/configuration. Thanks again.

Ingvar

When I go here for 32-bit :

http://packman.links2linux.org/package/xine-lib/118094

and here for 64-bit:

http://packman.links2linux.org/package/xine-lib/118126

and I look at the list of specific packages from Packman, I see a list something like:
libxine1-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.5.x86_64.rpm yesterday 18
libxine1-aa-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.5.x86_64.rpm yesterday 6
libxine1-arts-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.5.x86_64.rpm yesterday 4
libxine1-codecs-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.5.x86_64.rpm yesterday 15
libxine1-directfb-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.5.x86_64.rpm yesterday 5
libxine1-esd-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.5.x86_64.rpm yesterday 5
libxine1-gnome-vfs-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.5.x86_64.rpm yesterday 3
libxine1-jack-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.5.x86_64.rpm yesterday 7
libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.5.x86_64.rpm yesterday 4
libxine1-sdl-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.5.x86_64.rpm yesterday 1
libxine-devel-1.1.16.3-2.pm.6.5.x86_64.rpm

… so … You say, "There was nothing specifically called “libxine1” … just what is it again, that you do not see there? How can this be worded better so that you can see?

You’re making too many assumptions. I can only speak for my experience. Try searching for “libxine” under Yast2/ software managment. There’s a libxine1 there and it isn’t from packman (at least it doesn’t have the pm in the version number as you indicated earlier it should). That’s how most noobs (and I am one) install their software. I wouldn’t think you would expect anything different.

The two packman repositories you mention in your post are not on my list. I have this one: Index of /packman/suse/11.2 . Might that make a difference? I forget where I got the url for that repository from but it might have been these forums. I’ll try the other two and see if I get different results.

From my point of view most of your post is irrelevant. For someone trying to help that’s not a good thing.

Ingvar

The guidance we give new users, is to go here to learn how to setup their repositories: Repositories - openSUSE-Community

and then , for example, if they are using 11.1, they should go here:
Repositories/11.1 - openSUSE-Community

where if you follow that, you will see OSS, Non-OSS, and Update are probably added. All one needs to do is add packman.

My advice to you is to REMOVE the packman you added, and ADD packman the way I described above.

Now we have a NEW USERS section New User How To/FAQ (read only) - openSUSE Forums , with a guide, explaining all this and more on our forum. In stead of hijacking someone else’s thread that you just did, which is considered bad manner in the forum, you could have surfed the forum top level first, and also started your new thread.

Well, from my point of view, your post of libxine1 not being present was wrong, and misleading to other new users, and had to be immmediately corrected, else others who did not know better, and also could not be bothered to check our forum from the top level down (like I just decribed) would start quoting the error made as if it was gospel … ie no libxine1, when in fact here is , it is clear there is, and what more, it is noted in many many guides if one only takes the time to surf.

I’m sad to read that my post put you off, but I think you gather by now that yours had the same effect on me. I don’t get paid for this. I could just as well be working on my own project right now.

Anyway, since YOU consider my post irrelevant, I’ll do the same to yours. You are now on my ignore list. And please feel free to treat all the details in my above post as irrelevant. I post this more for others who may be mislead by the inaccurate statement that libxine1 can not be found in Packman. But no worries, as there are MANY on our forum who are much more tactful than I, and who are much brighter than I, who can give you the help you need. And the best way to get their attention is to post in a separate thread (don’t hijack someone else’s thread) and post politely.

Good luck.