Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On 2015-07-07 16:08:41, Akkana Peck wrote: > Package: vlc > Version: 2.2.1-2+b1 > Severity: important > > VLC suddenly is no longer able to play audio on systems that don't > have pulseaudio installed. When I run it on an mp3 file, it prints > on stdout, > > PulseAudio server connection failure > > and then just sits there doing nothing. Clicking the play button > does nothing. It also won't exit: clicking the windowmanager dismiss > button sometimes makes the window go away, sometimes not, but either > way it doesn't return control to the terminal where I started it. > A few ctrl-Cs will sometimes kill it, but often I have to use kill -9 > from another terminal. > > If vlc requires pulseaudio, it should have that in the dependencies. > But I've been using vlc for years and it never needed pulse before.
Please attach the output of vlc -vvv. Does audio work if you manually select alsa as audio output in the preferences? Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
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