No sound and no error message (VLC works though)

**pieroxy** · June 13th, 2010

Since about a day, mplayer and youtube (flash plugin) don't output any sound anymore. when playing a MP3 with mplayer it plays really fast (like 5x) and no sound is heard. whan playing a video (flash of mplayer) the video is ultra fast and no sound is played.

VLC is working fine...

Code:

pieroxy@pieroxy-linux:~/Music/OK/Air/Talkie Walkie$ time mplayer 01\ Air\ -\ Venus.flac.mp3 
MPlayer SVN-r1.0~rc3+svn20090426-4.4.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing 01 Air - Venus.flac.mp3.
Audio only file format detected.
Clip info:
 Title: Air - Venus.flac
 Artist: Air
 Album: Talkie Walkie
 Year: 2004
 Comment: 
 Track: 1
 Genre: Electronic
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 320.0 kbit/22.68% (ratio: 40000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 244.3 (04:04.3) of 246.0 (04:06.0)  0.5% 

Exiting... (End of file)

real	0m43.916s
user	0m1.392s
sys	0m0.216s
pieroxy@pieroxy-linux:~/Music/OK/Air/Talkie Walkie$

Any help will be appreciated.

**dan335** · June 13th, 2010

I'm having a similar problem! I can't get audio on any MPEG-2 videos with MPEG Streamclip or Quicktime Player, VLC is fine though. I just installed an update for Quicktime Player after being prompted by my Mac, that's when the audio disappeared - only on MPEG-2 videos. I've tried re-installing the MPEG-2 codec but that didn't help.

**lidex** · June 13th, 2010

Try changing your audio output device in MPlayer preferences.

**pieroxy** · June 13th, 2010

Hi lidex

Thanks for the tip, and it did the trick !

Now, I'm back to my problem with flash. After trying around different -ao options, it turns out ALSA is broken on my system - so I'm using oss and everything is fine. This is probably why all the trouble. I'm going to try to look around for a fix.

Thanks again!

**lidex** · June 14th, 2010

Can you post the output of these terminal commands for me please:

Code:

uname -a
aplay -l
dpkg -l | grep "alsa"
head -n 1 /proc/asound/card*/codec#*

Terminal="Applications->Accessories->Terminal"
Please also include the make/model of your PC/Laptop.
Please post text output using code tags (the # in toolbar)

**pieroxy** · June 14th, 2010

I actually got my sound back, but I have to do the same tweak every time I boot up so it is very annoying. I click the sound level icon -> Sound Preferences -> Output. In there I see only the HDMI output from the ATI GC... So I go to Hardware and select my "Internal Audio Analog Stereo Output" card, then back to Output I can now see the "Internal Audio Analog Stereo" which I can select. From then on it works until reboot where I have to do it all over again.

Code:

pieroxy@pieroxy-linux:~$ uname -a
Linux pieroxy-linux 2.6.32-22-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 22:02:19 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
pieroxy@pieroxy-linux:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC1200 Analog [ALC1200 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC1200 Digital [ALC1200 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
pieroxy@pieroxy-linux:~$ dpkg -l | grep "alsa"
ii  alsa-base                                  1.0.22.1+dfsg-0ubuntu3                          ALSA driver configuration files
ii  alsa-utils                                 1.0.22-0ubuntu5                                 ALSA utilities
ii  bluez-alsa                                 4.60-0ubuntu8                                   Bluetooth audio support
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa                         0.10.28-1                                       GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  libesd-alsa0                               0.2.41-6ubuntu1                                 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - transition
rc  libsdl1.2debian-alsa                       1.2.13-4ubuntu4                                 Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and ALSA 
ii  libsox-fmt-alsa                            14.3.0-1.1build1                                SoX alsa format I/O library
pieroxy@pieroxy-linux:~$ head -n 1 /proc/asound/card*/codec#*
==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 <==
Codec: Realtek ALC1200

==> /proc/asound/card1/codec#0 <==
Codec: ATI R6xx HDMI