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On 29/09/2015 17:10, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> On 09/29/2015 08:46 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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>> Evening all, |
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>> I've just gone through the process of upgrading to KDE Plasma, that's |
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>> V5 now isn't it. I think everything went correctly, although it's still |
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>> got baloo, now to get rid of that... |
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>> Anyway, I have vlc as my audio/video player and after the upgrade |
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>> clicking on a video will give me video but no audio. Clicking on an |
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>> audio file will give me nothing. The progress bar moves across, but no |
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>> volume. Using JuK, which I also have installed, gives me sound when a |
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>> music track is played. |
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>> Going into vlc then Tools -> Preferences and selecting "Reset |
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>> Preferences", accepting the reset warning dialogue, then closing vlc, |
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>> then restarting it with the same music track WILL give me sound. As I've |
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>> reset the preference, vlc will pop up the "Privacy and Network Access |
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>> Policy" dialogue asking if it can use the network for metadata. I |
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>> unselect this, then hit "Continue" and in turn the sound is killed, half |
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>> way through a track. Closing down and restarting does not give me back |
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>> sound. Redoing the reset preferences dialogue button does. |
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>> Has anyone come across this problem and if so, a remedy by any chance? |
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>> It's off to the vlc bug tracker now to see if it's a known problem.... |
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>> Regards, |
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>> Andrew |
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> Don't know if I'm answering my own question but.... In fiddling around |
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> I saw that the audio output, Audio -> Audio Device, was set to something |
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> that it shouldn't be. I changed it to the proper device and it now works. |
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> Having said that, now if I close vlc then restart, it's back to the |
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> original, wrong, device and hence, no sound. Also if it is set correctly |
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> and I then select the Audio menu, it loses the correct audio device, and |
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> the sound. As typing this, it occurred to me that in this case and my |
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> original question, that it is user interface actions that cause the loss |
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> of sound. Maybe there are still problems with the qt5 integration? |
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vlc with plasma5 works fine for me here, I didn't have to do anything |
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after upgrading plasma. |
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But I was having similar issues long ago with plasma 4. Making explicit |
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choices under phonon in system settings back then fixed that. i.e. not |
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relying on some "default" hardware, be explicit |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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