Re: video sound not working

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Anno domini 2022 Sat, 7 May 11:51:58 -0700
 William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
> 
> On Saturday 07 May 2022 07:33:22 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> 
> > > > ( sleep 3
> > > >         awk '/: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic/ {print "defaults.pcm.card
> > > > ",$1; pr int "defaults.ctl.card ",$1; print "defaults.timer.card
> > > > ",$1;}' /proc/asound/car ds > /etc/asound.conf
> > > >         sleep 20
> > > >         amixer sset Front 100%
> > > >         amixer sset Front on
> > > >         amixer sset PCM 100%
> > > > ) &
> > >
> >
> > LOL ... should be "nice lines" ... probably I need to type a bit more
> > careful :)
> >
> > They can go anywhere in /etc/rc.local, that is, if you need them at all. I
> > found that I need them on my system (too many soundcards, and the one I
> > want as default usually is not the default) --> I need to modify
> > /etc/asound.conf on each boot. And after TDE comes up, I need to set the
> > correct values for my mixer & output, otherwise they are muted. I remember
> > a time when ALSA saved the settings on shutdown/reboot and restored them on
> > the next boot, but I'm not sure if that was this millenia or the last.
> >
> > Nik
> 
> > All you have to do is in system.pa comment out this line
> > #load-module module-udev-detect
> > and in default.pa add 2 lines referencing alsa device you want pulse to use
> > load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmixplug
> > load-module module-alsa-source device=dsnoopplug
> > this should be "hw:X,X" if you have real sound card with hardware mixer, or
> > whatever you called the software mixer you setup in /etc/asound.conf for
> > no-mixer hardware
> > and then delete/rename /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf to prevent default
> > output switching to pulse
> >
> > --
> >   Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@xxxxxxxxx)
> 
> Okay, so I tried both these suggestions, and have made some progress. (Both 
> are quoted here for reference.) 
> 
> Thanks to Nik and Nick! These suggestions don't seem to conflict, so for the 
> present I have left them both in place and rebooted. (I kept the original 
> config files, so I can always go back.) 
> 
> At present, all my usual music players work, namely audacious and qmmp. I 
> haven't tried audacity yet, but if these work, I expect that audacity won't 
> be a problem. 
> 
> Likewise, vlc now plays everything I try, even stuff that wouldn't play 
> before. Likewise, kaffeine-trinity works with sound. I am not crazy about 
> kaffeine, but maybe I haven't used it enough to appreciate it. 


Nice :)

> 
> I have also tried others, with negative results:  smplayer, mplayer, kmplayer, 
> xine, totem, and most others do not play sound. 
> 
> The big surprise is, now smplayer won't play sound in any files, not even for 
> files that used to work before. (I used to be able to play some in smplayer, 
> others in vlc.) It seems to work normally, and the settings ought to be 
> right, so far as I can tell. I suspect that pulseaudio is necessary for those 
> that will not play. 
> 
> Anyway, I believe that I'm almost *there*, wherever there is. It would be nice 
> to get smplayer working again, but at least vlc works now.

You could try "apulse" --> "apulse smplayer" - but "apulse" stopped working here some months ago ... well, might have been the upgrade from chimera to daedalus :)

Nik

> 
> 
> Bill
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