[ubuntu-studio-users] No sound during video playback

[David King]

Thanks for your replies, sorry for not being more helpful so far.

I tried logging in as guest from a fresh boot, but guest user could not 
access any of the drives with videos in, nor could I mount them as sudo 
was not allowed.

Then I logged out and back in as my normal user account, and tried 
opening a video with Totem (the default video player) and it worked 
perfectly, with video and sound. I also tried with VLC and it worked. I 
also opened Rhythmbox and it played audio files okay.

So for no apparent reason it seems to have fixed itself without me 
actually doing anything other than logging in as guest before logging 
into my user account.

It could just be an intermittent problem of course.


David



On 19/09/14 17:09, Mike Holstein wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:04 AM, David King <linuxman at avoura.com 
> <mailto:linuxman at avoura.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Things are getting worse...
>
>     Now I cannot play a video at all except in VLC, and it still has
>     no sound. In other players, it shows it as playing but the
>     progress slider remains in one place. No clicking of play again
>     does anything.
>
>
> how about as another user? the guest user, for example..
>
>     Also, now in Firefox, videos have no sound -- although they did
>     this morning, and I have not rebooted or logged out or anything
>     like that.
>
>     I have tried playing audio files in Rhythmbox, but they will not
>     play either, no movement of progress slider and no sound output.
>     The same goes for Audacity, which I need for editing audio files.
>
>     According to sound settings that I looked at sound is enabled and
>     working.
>
>     I believe I am using Pulse Audio sound.
>
>
> dont "believe" anything.. are you using pulse? pulse ships with 
> ubuntustudio.. also, JACK ships. if you start an audio application 
> that requires JACK, and automatically tries to start JACK, this can 
> cause issues with your "normal" audio. please reboot, and dont start 
> *anything* other than just vlc, and test audio/video.. also, try as 
> another user to, as i stated a few times, remove your users config 
> from the equation..
>
>
>
>
>     David
>
>
>
>     On 19/09/14 12:00, Alexander Panov wrote:
>>     Please check which sound server these programs use. It is written
>>     in a settings of every program.
>>
>>     Then check sound server itself, or with GUI instruments or from
>>     console.
>>
>>     Third is to check processes on your computer, may be someone else
>>     process steal output of your sound server.
>>
>>     You have ALSA or OSS on the back, in front you will have Pulse or
>>     Jack...
>>     https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sound_system
>>
>>     And give us feedback hire!
>>
>>     On 19.9.2014 г. 12:44 ч., David King wrote:
>>>     e earlier, the loss of sound is in all video playback programs,
>>>     except
>>>     for one (UM Player), although it works when playing videos from
>>>     websites
>>>     in Firefox.
>>>
>>>     The default video player in Ubuntu Studio (just called Videos)
>>>     is not
>>>     playing any sound, and that is not from a PPA.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Does anyone else have this problem or any idea on how to resolve
>>>     it?
>>
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