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lorizean

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Registered: 2012-07-23

Posts: 18

Mute issues with mpv/cmus under alsa + pulse

Hi everyone!

I am having some weird issues with certain programs (noticed this in mpv and cmus) where they would mute themselves.

For example, cmus is often muted when it starts up and sometimes re-mutes itself when it changes songs (I couldn't find  any kind of pattern here).

Similarly, when I have a video on loop in mpv, it is muted from the second time onwards (mpv was muting itself on startup too, but I specified mute=no in the config file).
This also happens when I have a video with chapters in different files  - so, for example, there'd be an opening song to a series which is located in it's own file, which plays fine, but when it switches to the series file I have to unmute again.

I have teamspeak3 running alongside all the time, if that matters at all.

I am not sure what logs to post, if any.

Googling didn't really reveal an answer; I disabled the auto-mute setting in alsamixer, but that didn't help.

I'd be grateful for any help!

Sara

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From: USA

Registered: 2009-07-09

Posts: 219

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Re: Mute issues with mpv/cmus under alsa + pulse

I unfortunately don't have the answer for your question, but thank you so much for the mute=no suggestion, I was at my wit's end until I tried that! I'm having the same mute issue as you (also using pulse). But mpc plays properly just fine.

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