argh no sound in rmvb

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no sound comes from rmvbs they play just no sound i have tried playing with all different player none give sound to rmvb all sound works on my pc except rmvb files and i have the codecs for them what is the problem?

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any help would be appreciated very much

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its been a while...................................... so sorry for the triple post

BuMp~

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i have been searching google and everywhere i have dled every codec i can find stil lno fix

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,.,

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guess no one knows

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its been a week so.... bump

[z987k]

I'm having the exact same problem in fiesty. Need to get sound to work, or if I can just convert it, but something tells me if I convert it to avi and the codec doest play sound the avi file will end up with no sound.
Oh and people need to stop using these shitty *** codecs.

[Egils]

You can try the following workaround, which has been posted in other threads as well:

Originally Posted by NeoChaosX View Post I'm having this problem, too. It started happening in Feisty; in Edgy, Real files played audio just fine in Kaffeine as well. It was exactly like one problem I had a year ago when I couldn't get WMVs to play sound despite having w32codecs installed; it turns out I had to tweak ~/.xine/catalog.cache to get it to play sound. Maybe playing with that file again will get it working, but I'm not so sure. chggr: I'd prefer not to use VLC for a number of reasons, one of which there are some format it actually doesn't support (I have a few videos encoded in Indeo v4, which it doesn't support). So fixing xine to get this working would be preferable. ETA: Found a solution. Open up ~/.xine/catalog.cache in a text editor and find this section: Code: [/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.4/xineplug_decode_real_audio.so] size=11300 mtime=1171041406 type=131 api=15 id=realadec version=10104 supported_types=52494336 52559872 52756480 decoder_priority=5 Bump up the 'decoder_priority' value to 10. That should get audio with Real files working. First scratchy sound in SDL games, now this. And Canonical smoothed out all my audio problems with Edgy... Reply With Quote

Or alternatively you can install mplayer and the w32codecs package (which it sounds like you already have).

[Freiburg05]

I found yesterday that I have this problem (which I hadn't in Edgy), but the solution above have worked very well for me. Thanks!