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dejy

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Registered: 2014-03-18

Posts: 67

VLC Sound is Gone [Solved]

Alsa is unmuted. Youtube videos give sound. VLC does not. I haven't updated anything this happened after a reboot. What are the usual things to look at for debugging this?

Last edited by dejy (2015-02-15 07:13:38)

circleface

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Registered: 2012-05-26

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Re: VLC Sound is Gone [Solved]

Is the volume in vlc turned up?  That might be a seperate setting from alsa mixer.

ralvez

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Registered: 2005-12-06

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Re: VLC Sound is Gone [Solved]

I had a similar situation last week.
What I had to do was:
1. Go into VLC Simple Preferences
2. Click the Audio icon
3. Where it reads "Output Module" make sure the "output" is set to Alsa (or whatever you use)
   and the "Device" is set to your audio device.

4. Click save

Problem solved.
Well ... at least for me it is

Hope this helps.

R.

dejy

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Registered: 2014-03-18

Posts: 67

Re: VLC Sound is Gone [Solved]

I had a similar situation last week.
What I had to do was:
1. Go into VLC Simple Preferences
2. Click the Audio icon
3. Where it reads "Output Module" make sure the "output" is set to Alsa (or whatever you use)
   and the "Device" is set to your audio device.

4. Click save

Problem solved.
Well ... at least for me it is

Hope this helps.

R.

Thanks. Actually I caught that it the default audio device got switched somehow right about after posting here - but I'm glad you mentioned saving it in preferences . No idea why VLC suddenly decided to switch it's default audio device/output though.