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I had no sound out of the box with Arch so I followed the instructions located at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio.
Once I did this, I had sound effects in KDE and music played fine in JuK. However, I continue to have no sound in VLC.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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Check the selected sound output module in the VLC preferences, try either default or pulseaudio.
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I've tried all of them, and none of them work.
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Try installing pavucontrol and see whether vlc appears under the "playback" tab (set vlc to use pulseaudio output) - if so check the volume level under vlc. If that doesn't help try running vlc from a terminal and seeing if there are any usefull errors there.
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I launched pavucontrol with VLC playing a video and was surprised to see VLC listed. I switched it from "High Definition Audio Controller Digital Stereo" to "Internal Audio Analogue Stereo" and the sound immediately came alive. Thanks for that. Is changing this normally required?
Both sound options were already displayed in KDE Settings, so is there any other way I could have configured this without installing pavucontrol?
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Umm well I've just recalled that the full KMix interface (what you get when you click "Mixer" in the volume control drop-down) at least displays the per-application control but I'm not sure about allowing you to choose between outputs...
I don't know what it is that makes PA choose which output to use for which program so I don't know why it chose to put VLC on that output, I guess that the KDE settings don't control the PA default but only which device phonon uses.
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