VLC - no sound (.mpg playback)

[Julita]

Hi! I have this problem with .mpg file. With SMplayer there are no problems, so I guess I have to configure VLC. The question is - how? Or are there additional libraries that I need to install? Please help.

[chewearn]

Check under VLC Audio Preferences. There might be a misconfigured setting that cause no audio. E.g. "enable audio" is unchecked (d'oh! ) or "Use SPDIF when available" is checked.

[Julita]

I have done that, to no avail. I have contacted the developer and he has said that the file is a non-standard, and VLC would play only a definite .ts format. It appeared that only (S)MPlayer would play it. Kaffeine and KMplayer would not. It's the file issue...

[chewearn]

Okay, if you know what the unsupported format is, please post to help people who stumble into this thread in the future.

Also, please mark this thread as solved, thank you.

[Julita]

It is advisable to run VLC *file* in the terminal to see the problem. If VLC indicates errors about its incompatibility with the file because of the "wrong" ISO standard, then the problem is within a file.