Using opensuse 12.1 gnome3 x64bit on a laptop with intel hd audio.
VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547)
Upgraded to the latest vlc 2.0.1 (packman repository) and experience sound issues.
Playback of any mp3 or video file appears to be muted. But after letting a mp3 file continue play with no sound I discovered that approximately once per minute there is a fraction of audio playback, just for a second or so. If using the progress bar to jump forward I can hear some click sound from the speakers as if vlc tries to activate sound but does not succeed.
Did a complete uninstall and removed all vlc cache/config files and re-installed the application but the problem remains.
Sound works perfectly fine in other media applications like totem, banshee, xine, mplayer.
Never had any issues with the previous versions of vlc (1.1.3)
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> Using opensuse 12.1 gnome3 x64bit on a laptop with intel hd audio.
> VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547)
>
> Upgraded to the latest vlc 2.0.1 (packman repository) and experience
> sound issues.
> Playback of any mp3 or video file appears to be muted. But after
> letting a mp3 file continue play with no sound I discovered that
> approximately once per minute there is a fraction of audio playback,
> just for a second or so. If using the progress bar to jump forward I can
> hear some click sound from the speakers as if vlc tries to activate
> sound but does not succeed.
>
> Did a complete uninstall and removed all vlc cache/config files and
> re-installed the application but the problem remains.
>
> Sound works perfectly fine in other media applications like totem,
> banshee, xine, mplayer.
> Never had any issues with the previous versions of vlc (1.1.3)
>
> Anyone else experiencing this issue with vlc 2?
>
>
yes, happens to me, too.
i found that after opening pavucontrol and touching some sliders under the
“playback” and “output” tabs, vlc sound started after a few seconds, and
as long as the pavucontrol window remains open, sound continues to play.
closing pavucontrol, sound stops again. appears that there’s a problem
with vlc & pulseaudio, at least in my case.
where to report bugs for this (packman) version of vlc?
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> hjultomten;2454107 Wrote:
>> …Anyone else experiencing this issue with vlc 2?
>
> Yes.
> I think it is because of VLC backend for Phonon. I had to remove
> phonon-backend-vlc during upgrade.
>
> openSUSE Tumbleweed x64, KDE 4.8, VLC 2.0.1
>
>
i removed that, too, but still have sound problems with vlc2.
>
> Go to prefs > Audio
> Output Mode > Select ALSA,
> then in the drop down select you default audio device
>
i did that, but still sound stops playing when i close the pavucontrol
window. nothing i can’t live with, since i mostly use smplayer these days,
and keeping pavucontrol open doesn’t hurt in case i want to use vlc.
still, puzzling…
I also checked this audio setting in vlc but it is already set to the default alsa (pulseaudio server). Since I have the short bursts of audio every 46sec or so that indicates the right output device is already set.
Haven’t tried or installed the pavucontrol because I never had the need for it (so far).
Update: Seems I got the audio working now after another clean install of vlc 2. When looking in yast for vlc packages there was one package called “vlc-aout-pulse” which wasn’t added by default. With this addition my sound is fully functional in vlc.
Now it seems quite obvious for me that that should have been installed in the first place. But I don’t recall ever having this installed with older versions of vlc (which was done according this Restricted Multimedia guide)
there’s a famous script that has been around for a long time, forgot it’s
name now but have it bookmarked somewhere, from oldcpu i think, that
checks the system’s audio settings. never had to use it since i never had
any real trouble with my audio settings. perhaps i’ll go for that some
time. right now this isn’t important enough for me and i’m a little
preoccupied. if selecting the correct audio device works for everyone
else, that’s good enough for me at the moment.
<smacks head> of course! i remember installing that long ago, but somehow
i must have removed it at some point. re-installing it, sound in vlc2
works just fine. thank you.
I suspect the script you may be thinking of is the ‘MMCHECK’ script created and coded by jdmcdaniel3 (originally inspired by some checks of RedDwarf). The script may have not been maintained to handle the nuances of openSUSE-12.1, although it still may come in handy. There may not be a 12.1 version.
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> phanisvara;2454162 Wrote:
>>
>> there’s a famous script that has been around for a long time, forgot
>> it’s
>> name now but have it bookmarked somewhere, from oldcpu i think, that
>> checks the system’s audio settings. never had to use it since i never
>> had
>> any real trouble with my audio settings. perhaps i’ll go for that some
>> time. right now this isn’t important enough for me and i’m a little
>> preoccupied. if selecting the correct audio device works for everyone
>> else, that’s good enough for me at the moment.
>>
>
> I suspect the script you may be thinking of is the ‘MMCHECK’ script
> created and coded by jdmcdaniel3 (originally inspired by some checks of
> RedDwarf). The script may have not been maintained to handle the
> nuances of openSUSE-12.1, although it still may come in handy. There
> may not be a 12.1 version.
>
>
>
> ‘MMCHECK - Check Your Multimedia in 10 Steps - Script File, as proposed
> by RedDwarf - Page 4’
> (http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?p=2255970)
>
ah, thank you. didn’t find that earlier bookmark i had.
the vlc2 problem i had has been solved – was nothing but a missing
package, vlc-aout-pulse.
but the script, even though it may not work as it is in openSUSE >= 12.1,
could still come in useful in times of need, by taking it apart and using
the different checks separately.
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> oldcpu;2455088 Wrote:
>> I suspect the script you may be thinking of is the ‘MMCHECK’ script
>> created and coded by jdmcdaniel3 (originally inspired by some checks of
>> RedDwarf). The script may have not been maintained to handle the
>> nuances of openSUSE-12.1, although it still may come in handy. There
>> may not be a 12.1 version.
>> ‘MMCHECK - Check Your Multimedia in 10 Steps - Script File, as proposed
>> by RedDwarf - Page 4’
>> (http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?p=2255970)
> It turns out there IS a 12.1 version. Please read this blog entry:
> ‘MMCHECK - Version 2.41 - Check Your Multimedia in 16 Steps - Bash
> Script File - Blogs - openSUSE Forums’ (http://tinyurl.com/7qsbxuq) and
> MMCHECK 2.40 has been updated to work with openSUSE 12.1 (although I see
> MMCHECK is now up to version 2.41).
>
great, thank you! still don’t need it, but sometimes sound seems to work
(or not to) in almost mystical ways, so i’m keep being surprised that i
didn’t have any real problems yet. that might change any time…
