On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 09:24:30PM +0000, Glenn English wrote: > Debian Buster, RME Hammerfall soundcard, VLC 3.0.1 > > Already looked at the VLC site and found nothing useful, so I whine to > the audio gurus on this list. > > Audacity works fine playing mp3s and flacs (meters bounce, sound in > the headphones). But VLC is dead (nothing, and the VLC site suggests > that I go to menu items that don't exist. But my card is in VLC's list > of cards (audio->audio device)). > > Does anyone in this list know what may be going on?
If VLC can see the card, then it's not VLC's fault. Likely suspects: 1. Wrong output selected. (Especially common: HDMI vs analog out) 2. pavucontrol has muted your output. 3. physical cable issue, including plugging into a mic jack instead of the headphone jack, and many similar variations. -dsr-
