[gentoo-user] Vlc not playing audio

[gentoo-user] Vlc not playing audio

[Andrew Lowe]

Evening all,
	I've just gone through the process of upgrading to KDE Plasma, that's
V5 now isn't it. I think everything went correctly, although it's still
got baloo, now to get rid of that...

	Anyway, I have vlc as my audio/video player and after the upgrade
clicking on a video will give me video but no audio. Clicking on an
audio file will give me nothing. The progress bar moves across, but no
volume. Using JuK, which I also have installed, gives me sound when a
music track is played.

	Going into vlc then Tools -> Preferences and selecting "Reset
Preferences", accepting the reset warning dialogue, then closing vlc,
then restarting it with the same music track WILL give me sound. As I've
reset the preference, vlc will pop up the "Privacy and Network Access
Policy" dialogue asking if it can use the network for metadata. I
unselect this, then hit "Continue" and in turn the sound is killed, half
way through a track. Closing down and restarting does not give me back
sound. Redoing the reset preferences dialogue button does.

	Has anyone come across this problem and if so, a remedy by any chance?
It's off to the vlc bug tracker now to see if it's a known problem....

	Regards,
		Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Vlc not playing audio

[Andrew Lowe]

On 09/29/2015 08:46 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Evening all,
> 	I've just gone through the process of upgrading to KDE Plasma, that's
> V5 now isn't it. I think everything went correctly, although it's still
> got baloo, now to get rid of that...
> 
> 	Anyway, I have vlc as my audio/video player and after the upgrade
> clicking on a video will give me video but no audio. Clicking on an
> audio file will give me nothing. The progress bar moves across, but no
> volume. Using JuK, which I also have installed, gives me sound when a
> music track is played.
> 
> 	Going into vlc then Tools -> Preferences and selecting "Reset
> Preferences", accepting the reset warning dialogue, then closing vlc,
> then restarting it with the same music track WILL give me sound. As I've
> reset the preference, vlc will pop up the "Privacy and Network Access
> Policy" dialogue asking if it can use the network for metadata. I
> unselect this, then hit "Continue" and in turn the sound is killed, half
> way through a track. Closing down and restarting does not give me back
> sound. Redoing the reset preferences dialogue button does.
> 
> 	Has anyone come across this problem and if so, a remedy by any chance?
> It's off to the vlc bug tracker now to see if it's a known problem....
> 
> 	Regards,
> 		Andrew
> 
> 

	Don't know if I'm answering my own question but.... In fiddling around
I saw that the audio output, Audio -> Audio Device, was set to something
that it shouldn't be. I changed it to the proper device and it now works.

	Having said that, now if I close vlc then restart, it's back to the
original, wrong, device and hence, no sound. Also if it is set correctly
and I then select the Audio menu, it loses the correct audio device, and
the sound. As typing this, it occurred to me that in this case and my
original question, that it is user interface actions that cause the loss
of sound. Maybe there are still problems with the qt5 integration?

	Regards,
		Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Vlc not playing audio

[Alan McKinnon]

On 29/09/2015 17:10, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> On 09/29/2015 08:46 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>> Evening all,
>> 	I've just gone through the process of upgrading to KDE Plasma, that's
>> V5 now isn't it. I think everything went correctly, although it's still
>> got baloo, now to get rid of that...
>>
>> 	Anyway, I have vlc as my audio/video player and after the upgrade
>> clicking on a video will give me video but no audio. Clicking on an
>> audio file will give me nothing. The progress bar moves across, but no
>> volume. Using JuK, which I also have installed, gives me sound when a
>> music track is played.
>>
>> 	Going into vlc then Tools -> Preferences and selecting "Reset
>> Preferences", accepting the reset warning dialogue, then closing vlc,
>> then restarting it with the same music track WILL give me sound. As I've
>> reset the preference, vlc will pop up the "Privacy and Network Access
>> Policy" dialogue asking if it can use the network for metadata. I
>> unselect this, then hit "Continue" and in turn the sound is killed, half
>> way through a track. Closing down and restarting does not give me back
>> sound. Redoing the reset preferences dialogue button does.
>>
>> 	Has anyone come across this problem and if so, a remedy by any chance?
>> It's off to the vlc bug tracker now to see if it's a known problem....
>>
>> 	Regards,
>> 		Andrew
>>
>>
> 
> 	Don't know if I'm answering my own question but.... In fiddling around
> I saw that the audio output, Audio -> Audio Device, was set to something
> that it shouldn't be. I changed it to the proper device and it now works.
> 
> 	Having said that, now if I close vlc then restart, it's back to the
> original, wrong, device and hence, no sound. Also if it is set correctly
> and I then select the Audio menu, it loses the correct audio device, and
> the sound. As typing this, it occurred to me that in this case and my
> original question, that it is user interface actions that cause the loss
> of sound. Maybe there are still problems with the qt5 integration?

vlc with plasma5 works fine for me here, I didn't have to do anything
after upgrading plasma.

But I was having similar issues long ago with plasma 4. Making explicit
choices under phonon in system settings back then fixed that. i.e. not
relying on some "default" hardware, be explicit


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com