Hello
I’ve installed three video players VLC, MPV and native Dragon
So VLC has audio&video, but is freezing and plays video like slideshow
MPV plays only video, no audio 
Dragon works fine but very unconformable player.
I prefer to use mpv, please help me make it work right.
Try to uninstall libvdpau_va_gl1 if it is installed.
And it would help if you’d mention what graphics card and driver you are using.
I prefer to use mpv, please help me make it work right.
Do you have Pulseaudio enabled?
Then set the audio output to “pulse” in mpv’s settings, else use “alsa”.
Btw, SMplayer is a nice frontend to mpv…
First thank you very much for anwer and help
I uninstalled it and now VLC works fine ! Dragon is same, mpv still without audio.
I’ve geforce 720m nvidia, but as it is terminator, Ican’t install nvidia driver. So I’m using default(?) driver 
Can’t find config file for mpv :?, but that is another problem.
Strange thing is I installed smplayer, I like it very much, but still no audio. no effect when I’m trying to change in preferences. nothing changes 
Not to sound insulting but I had a similar problem.
Did you check in the lower right of the SMplayer UI? There’s a volume control there & if it’s like mine it’s set to mute, slide ot to the right. If you haven’t already of course.
Already tried that but it is stuck in my case can’t move cursor, or unmute.
This two window VLC bug(?) is very annoying
why not try wolfi’s build of kaffeine 1.3.1 it uses libvlc as a backend so it supports all formats vlc does and it does not have the 2 window bug
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/wolfi323:/branches:/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/x86_64/kaffeine-1.3.1-61.2.x86_64.rpm
or use packman’s libxine2 with xine-ui or kaffeine 1.2.2 with libxine2
I just did another installation of Leap now, I’m in same boat, no audio, and it’s not muted. It worked before on installation 1,000,007, this is now install 1,000,008th and it’s not working. VLC player still has the double window BS going on too… They updated it in Tumbleweed but no other versions? Wtf lol.
Off-topic
Also, when I had Fedora 23 installed as last OS, they had xorg updated to 1.81 and my nvidia driver went from 340.93 to 340.96 on nvidia site, but after doing repo for nvidia in Leap… it still installs 340.93? Won’t leap update xorg and nvidia repo… Or am I supposed to update hard way in Leap to have 340.96 driver until xorg is updated in Leap.
Sorry meant xorg updated to 1.18 and driver to 340.96, for GeForce 210 graphic card.
Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver
| Version: | 340.96 |
|—|—|
| Release Date: | 2015.11.16 |
| Operating System: | Linux 64-bit |
| Language: | English (US) |
| File Size: | 66.59 MB |
Well, with this information it is impossible to help you.
But try to add your user to the “audio” group, and/or revert polkit 0.112.
There is a problem with the update to 0.113 (also in 13.2) that could cause insufficient user privileges.
Or try to disable PulseAudio as a test. (YaST->Hardware->Sound->Other->PulseAudio Configuration)
I would suggest to create a new thread specificly for that problem though, and/or file a bug report.
VLC player still has the double window BS going on too… They updated it in Tumbleweed but no other versions?
Who is “they” and what did “they” update in Tumbleweed?
“The double window BS” is a Leap specific problem though, it never happened in Tumbleweed.
In any case, Tumbleweed is the rolling distribution. The point of Tumbleweed is to get packages updated (to the latest feature versions) all the time.
Leap on the other hand is the stable release, and will only get selected bugfix and security updates (like every other openSUSE release before).
Packman does always update VLC to the latest version, but there is nothing newer than 2.2.1 at this point (unless you want to try the Beta, which apparently has this problem fixed).
Off-topic
Also, when I had Fedora 23 installed as last OS, they had xorg updated to 1.81 and my nvidia driver went from 340.93 to 340.96 on nvidia site, but after doing repo for nvidia in Leap… it still installs 340.93? Won’t leap update xorg and nvidia repo… Or am I supposed to update hard way in Leap to have 340.96 driver until xorg is updated in Leap.
Why would you need the 340.96 driver for Leap?
Leap comes with Xorg 1.17 and that won’t change, like with every openSUSE release before you only get bugfix and security updates.
The nvidia repo will be updated (for all supported openSUSE versions), but it usually takes some time.
Lol! It’s sarcasm for how many installations I’m up too now for opensuse. It doesn’t server a purpose, it’s mere sarcasm to get laugh from it.
I’m not sure how to add myself to the group for it though or revert polkit 0.112? Never had done it before, never really expected I had to do this stuff, because it’s assumption that things work or if they break, they’ll be fixed and not made worse. So great, even 13.2 it’s not working right, and double VLC player window issue in 13.2 too, or not? Or is it just tumbleweed where the vlc player double issue don’t exist and no issue with pulseaudio?
“they” = developers. and I thought I read some where from moderator here that the issue with double vlc player window was fixed in tumbleweed, if you’re saying it never happened in Tumbleweed, then okay. lol. When I used Fedora 23, the vlc double window wasn’t there, nor in Kubuntu.
I’d go back to tumbleweed again if it wouldn’t fry my graphics card out in short time period, because of all kernel updates going on, then nvidia driver keeps getting dropped and having to reinstall the nvidia drivers a lot. It’s what happened to graphic card last time, all these wiping, installing, wiping, installing, wiping, installing … of Kubuntu Wily, Leap, 13.2 etc… If I go to Tumbleweed again, I might not need to wipe installation of Tumbleweed, but might need to keep reinstalling nvidia drivers to point of card burning out and have to send it back for replacement.
So you’re saying that it’s our (general users) fault and have to suffer and live with double vlc window issues in 13.2 and Leap because “they (the developers)” messed up some where along line, either OpenSuse devs or VLC devs, or Packman devs with VLC player, and the pulse audio issue, and now there’s good 99.9% chance they won’t fix it so we have to deal with it or move to another distro where’s not happening in, because “they (the developers)” might not ever fix it, it’s possibly a bug that’s not worthy and important to fix? … Hmm, not good. lol. Same with PulseAudio bug or whatever, it wasn’t happening in an earlier installation of Leap, it worked good, cause I had volume in SMplayer, now I don’t… so now I’m “screwed” because BOTH main media players are shot to **** or have issues with them, so again, general users have to deal with it and chance of not getting fixed, because it might not be worthy of issue to fix immediately, could be months or years for fixes for those media players (if lucky). Well, of course users have to do manual fixes themselves or whatever like you suggested above, which still technically isn’t good thing for users.
I tried beta several times before, and had nothing fixed, and actually even more issues or errors trying to install it or use it. IMHO, beta shouldn’t even be coming up as results for vlc player in software management.
I wasn’t sure hence asking about it, I wasn’t sure if xorg would be updated or not in Leap even though Leap is a stable release, hence whole point of asking about it lol. So it would probably be updated with Tumbleweed then right, since Tumbleweed usually gets latest and greatest for everything? Then of course if I went Tumbleweed again, I’d have to install driver hard way method for 340.96 if Tumbleweed has xorg 1.18. I don’t know, but might end up going with Tumbleweed, Fedora 23, Kubuntu Wily, or heck… back to Windows 7 or even Windows 10 (let them spy on me 100%) and not care cause at least things work in Windows, had nothing but bugs, issues, etc with all the linux distros I’ve listed, hence all the wiping, installing, wiping, installing, wiping, installing… Sucks, but can’t do much about it lol.
Hi, regardging to MPV, I use the SMPlayer in which I had to do the following to solve the audio issue:
In my case I had to go to Options > Preferences and change the path of the Mplayer/mpv executable from “/usr/bin/mpv” to “/usr/bin/mplayer2”.