No Sound VLC!?!

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Hi,

Like topic says, I have no sound in VLC for both video and music files. Other players (Amarok, Dragon) are working with sound but VLC isnt

Starting VLC in Konsole gives no errors, changing VLC output to OSS or Alsa has no effect.

Please help Thx in advance

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[TheStroj]

Go to the sound control panel on top right corner of the screen and open it, then in the Programs tab check if it's marked to be muted.

Remember, VLC must be running at the time you're doing this.

[mc4man]

if the above didn't fix then maybe...

If you are on kubuntu and not using pulseaudio then ck. and make sure the vlc-plugin-pulse didn't somehow get installed, if you are using pulseaudio then the opposite - make sure the plugin is installed

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I am using Kubuntu. Cannot find something like sound control panel

Sorry

Removed VLC 1.0.6 and installed 1.1.0

"sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc vlc-plugin-pulse "

didnt work

[TheStroj]

You can also try and install PulseAudio volume control and do all the muting/unmuting from there. It's a very advanced program, you can do pretty much everything related to sound there.

sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

You can find it in the menu then.

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installed pavucontrol

restarted and now I am getting a error message: "Connection failed: connection denied" (Translated)

Its not improving

However with sudo pavucontrol in konsole I got the following error message: "Home directory /home/htpc not ours."

So I am now doing a "sudo chown -R htpc.htpc /home/htpc/" hope it helps

Get back to you...thx for the help so far

[TheStroj]

installed pavucontrol

restarted and now I am getting a error message: "Connection failed: connection denied" (Translated)

Its not improving

Can you say which program gives this message, because I don't think i get it.

Anyways, what happens when you run a music/video file in VLC?
What happens when you open PA Volume Control?

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Can you say which program gives this message, because I don't think i get it.

Anyways, what happens when you run a music/video file in VLC?
What happens when you open PA Volume Control?

The "sudo chown -R htpc.htpc /home/htpc/" didnt help

** Pavaucontrol **
If I start pavucontrol (normal via gui and in terminal) I am getting the error message.

** VLC **
When I run a music file in VLC (normally I am getting no message), when I run VLC in terminal it says gives the output

VLC media player 1.1.1 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
[0x2206910] main libvlc: Start vlc met standaardinterface. Gebruik 'cvlc' om vlc zonder interface te gebruiken.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to sigaction(17, 0x7fb233a99b20, 0x7fb233a99a80)
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to setlocale(1, "C")
Blocked: call to setlocale(1, "nl_NL.UTF-8")
Blocked: call to setlocale(1, "C")
/usr/bin/xdg-screensaver: 775: dcop: not found

[TheStroj]

The "sudo chown -R htpc.htpc /home/htpc/" didnt help

** Pavaucontrol **
If I start pavucontrol (normal via gui and in terminal) I am getting the error message.

** VLC **
When I run a music file in VLC (normally I am getting no message), when I run VLC in terminal it says gives the output

VLC media player 1.1.1 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
[0x2206910] main libvlc: Start vlc met standaardinterface. Gebruik 'cvlc' om vlc zonder interface te gebruiken.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to sigaction(17, 0x7fb233a99b20, 0x7fb233a99a80)
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1)
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to setlocale(1, "C")
Blocked: call to setlocale(1, "nl_NL.UTF-8")
Blocked: call to setlocale(1, "C")
/usr/bin/xdg-screensaver: 775: dcop: not found

I think chowning home folder made VLC do that.

Btw, there's no need to run pavucontrol like root, you're not managing home directory of root (which is /root) so that's why you got that message saying it's not 'ours' home folder. Re-do what you've done to home folder and try running pavucontrol normaly.

[chenrazee]

I've just come across another very peculiar VLC problem. Up until now, it's played everything I've thrown at it. (Aside from the occasional quirk.)

I was playing a video file tonight, an .avi, and I moved the progress slider to replay a scene. The movie (and only that specific movie) lost all sound.

I logged out then in, I rebooted, I uninstalled and reinstalled VLC. All to no avail.

All my other movies play with sound as usual, several with the same video and audio codecs as the problematic movie.

And the soundless movie plays with sound in Totem.

Any ideas as to why VLC (and only VLC) can't play the sound in this movie since I rewound the movie a few seconds?