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Superadmin

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Registered: 2021-08-22

Posts: 92

No Audio in Davinci Resolve[SOLVED]

Hi !!
I installed davinci resolved and have been enduring lots of problems among which "No Audio Preview" Turns out to be the most intriguing one

I can make sure that I try to went through the possible setting to making audio working in davinci resolve but still being just a beginner I was unsuccessful in resolving the issues I encountered

Here are the log file for the messages I see when I open up the davinci resolve.

I also have created a sound.conf file as suggested in DaVinci Resolve Installation Guide on Arch

$ nano /etc/asound.conf
pcm.!default pulse
ctl.!default pulse

I suggest you to take a look into this pastebin
I saw a bunch of error while I was installing Davinci Resolve through AUR (yay ofcourse)
May be this has something to do with my all those issues..
And yes I also tried manual installation and uninstalled and installed Davinci resolve more than 10 times to see if problem would be fixed

I also checked the DaVinci resolve checker that contained python script to see if there were some issues....
Althought It didn't say if my lapotop was good to go for DR but I have necessary nvidia-drivers and all the dependencies manually installed

Using locale en_US
DaVinci Resolve checker 2.4.1
Installed DaVinci Resolve package: davinci-resolve 17.4-1
Chassis type: laptop
Installed OpenCL drivers: opencl-nvidia
Presented GPUs:
        TU116M [GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile] (kernel driver in use: nvidia)
        Renoir (kernel driver in use: amdgpu)
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation

You have AMD and NVIDIA GPUs. I am confused. Which one do you intend to use?

I also have imported mov file format in davinci resolved using

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v dnxhd -profile:v dnxhr_hq -pix_fmt yuv422p -c:a pcm_s16le -f mov output.mov

If you feel like I am missing some info I would be happy to report you
I know Kdenlive exists and I am using it as well but I am starving for learning some nodes and awesome features that davinci resolve delivers....
Hope thats not a issue

Have a great day

Last edited by Superadmin (2021-10-29 03:33:06)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,274

Re: No Audio in Davinci Resolve[SOLVED]

The log is full of unknown pcm pulse messages. Do you even use pulseaudio? You'll want alsa-plugins in that case and probably you should remove your asound.conf and install pulseaudio-alsa instead.

Superadmin

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Registered: 2021-08-22

Posts: 92

Re: No Audio in Davinci Resolve[SOLVED]

Do you even use pulseaudio?

Hi V1del

Yes I have pulse audio since the beginning

sudo pacman -S pulseaudio
warning: pulseaudio-15.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)       Old Version  New Version  Net Change

extra/pulseaudio  15.0-1       15.0-1         0.00 MiB

Total Installed Size:  5.81 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

You'll want alsa-plugin in that case and probably you should remove your asound.conf and install pulseaudio-alsa instead

Okay !!
Wait
can you please explain why my audio could not be heard even if I had pulseaudio?
I mean now after installing pluseaudio-alsa it is working but It is also accessing microphone at the same time
which I don't know why is it doing?
Do you know?

Have a great day !!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,274

Re: No Audio in Davinci Resolve[SOLVED]

Davinci Resolve only uses ALSA for output and you didn't have alsa-plugins installed which would include the alsa -> pulse compatibility layer. I'm assuming davinci accesses the microphone at the same time to provide some of it's features.

cartanian

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Registered: 2024-12-26

Posts: 3

Re: No Audio in Davinci Resolve[SOLVED]

Got it work finally solution so simple

mv ~/.asoundrc ~/.asound.bak
speaker-test

if your PINK sound, it is working
and resolve will follow using your default sound card

make sure to disable any mother BIOS internal sound card
hope this helps

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: No Audio in Davinci Resolve[SOLVED]

Thank you for sharing, but superadmin marked this as solved 3+ years ago.

Closing this thread.

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