I just finished installing 11.4 64bit. Kaffeine and Amarok both produce sound, but VLC does not. When I invoke vlc http://stream-1.ssatr.ch:80/rsj/mp3 I can see the name of the album playing but there is silence. Any ideas? Oh yes, I ran the mmcheck script.
Thanks.
Hi,
Did you check the audio settings inside vlc ? Check the output section and select the right one.
When I select “Audio” from the top panel, “Audio device” is grayed out and not selectable. Volume is full on.
You ave to go to tools- >preferences->audio tab->output section and select the appropriate one. I guess you’ll have to select Pulse audio since the 11.4 has the Pulse audio server activated by default.
Pulse is not an option. But I selected “UNIX OSS audio output” and the sound came back. Many thanks.
Cool ! I am glad it works.
Did you try with ALSA ?
Yes that’s what I tried first, because I believe that’s the way it was set under 11.3. Didn’t work.
Try with Gstreamer.
ionmich, my recommendation is you do not follow that suggestion of stamostolias.
stamostolias, before you make such recommendations, you should really check to see if it is even possible. My understanding is that is NOT possible for vlc and ergo in this case the recommendation is not good. Please correct me if I am wrong wrt vlc.
onmich, my recommendation is you do not follow that suggestion of stamostolias.
stamostolias, before you make such recommendations, you should really check to see if it is even possible. My understanding is that is NOT possible for vlc and ergo in this case the recommendation is not good. Please correct me if I am wrong wrt vlc.
Maybe I was wrong try to check here
If vlc was an application that used the KDE settings that might help. However the application VLC does not do that. If you install VCL and then open VLC and look at VLC > Tools > Preferences > Audio you will notice that is the case. ie changing KDE audio settings will have no direct effect on VLC, although if one is not careful one can by following your suggestion setup the KDE desktop such that it seizes the audio device and refuses to share it with any application (including not sharing with VLC) . ie the risk is that suggestion can make this worse.
Now there are threads on the web where for generic video streaming, some people suggest using gstreamer to stream instead of vlc, but that is not the question in this thread. The question in this thread is how to get sound out of vlc.
Ok. I tried!!!
The following worked for me as well.
At the VLC media player window select:
tools->preferences->audio tab->output section => “UNIX OSS audio output”
If you remove pulseaudio. VLC will work perfectly with kde default audio setting.
KDE and Intel HDA work best with alsasound.
I did have sound issues with VLC or Smplayer and the problem was pulseaudio. All i had to do was to remove pulseaudio and all his modules, but i kept libpulse-browse0, libpulse-mainloop-glib0 and libpulse0 (mainly due to dependencies issues) and my troubles with sound disappeared; maybe this will help you too .
I had a similar problem. When playing a video file I would have sound but as soon as I used the seek feature silence. If I changed the audio track I got sound back. If I started the file and did not use the seek feature audio dropped out after a few minutes, again it could be regained after switching audio tracks. As per the advice in this thread I went to remove pulse. I removed the 64-bit package alsa-plugins-pulse and nothing else. VlC is set to use alsa and audio is now flawless. Also instead of removing pulse the first fix also worked whereby one changes vlc audio output to UNIX OSS audio output.
So apparently I can’t edit my post. What I said worked, until I rebooted then I had no sound devices at all. After a long process I realized that removing that package was a bad idea.
the same thing happened with me when i was using 11.4 i just downloaded the 1 click install from the vlc site and installed it again it worked for me it might work for you as well !!
here is the link http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/11.4/vlc.ymp