Re: VLC missing sound [solved]

2011-12-01 Thread Porcia Silvia
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:10:01 +0100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > task-xfce-desktop, (or the meta package xfce4), don't install pulseaudio... > Perhaps you selected something that required gnome-core? No gnome-core here [648MB]. I believe vlc must have brought pulseaudio with it. -- ps -- To UNSUBS

Re: VLC missing sound [solved]

2011-11-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/12/11 09:41, Porcia Silvia wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:30:01 +0100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > >>> One might ask what made 'PulseAudio Output' the default on this system? >> >> >> Would need to know more about your "system" to answer that it's a >> requirement in several meta-packag

Re: VLC missing sound [solved]

2011-11-30 Thread Porcia Silvia
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:30:01 +0100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > > One might ask what made 'PulseAudio Output' the default on this system? > > > Would need to know more about your "system" to answer that it's a > requirement in several meta-packages. Possibly your DE (you don't say > what you're

Re: VLC missing sound [solved]

2011-11-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/11/11 12:23, Porcia Silvia wrote: > This problem was caused by VLC selecting the 'default' output module under > audio settings [menu: Tools-Preferences-Audio Settings-Output] > > The drop down menu shows in this case: 'default' and I thought ALSA was the > default but apparently not..anyway

Re: VLC missing sound [solved]

2011-11-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
The installation of a graphical user interface makes pulseaudio the default sound provider, or in your case the default silence provider. Glad you got this one solved. On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Porcia Silvia wrote: > This problem was caused by VLC selecting the 'default' output module under > audi

Re: VLC missing sound [solved]

2011-11-29 Thread Porcia Silvia
This problem was caused by VLC selecting the 'default' output module under audio settings [menu: Tools-Preferences-Audio Settings-Output] The drop down menu shows in this case: 'default' and I thought ALSA was the default but apparently not..anyway I selected ALSA in the menu this then materialize

Re: VLC missing sound

2011-11-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
That's weird, my vlc came from debian-multimedia repository and it's working. On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Porcia Silvia wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:10:02 +0100 > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Apparently yet another pulseaudio error. If I am not much mistaken the > > debian espeakup distribution I ha

Re: VLC missing sound

2011-11-22 Thread Porcia Silvia
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:10:02 +0100 Jude DaShiell wrote: > Apparently yet another pulseaudio error. If I am not much mistaken the > debian espeakup distribution I have working on this system uses alsa > rather than pulseaudio which may be why it works. If some sound didn't > work in my case,

Re: VLC missing sound

2011-11-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
Apparently yet another pulseaudio error. If I am not much mistaken the debian espeakup distribution I have working on this system uses alsa rather than pulseaudio which may be why it works. If some sound didn't work in my case, I'd not have Linux working at all since I need speech synthesis

Re: VLC missing sound

2011-11-22 Thread Porcia Silvia
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:00:01 +0100 Jude DaShiell wrote: > Please run the following script and see if you still don't get sound. > Cut here: > > #!/bin/bash > # file: treasuretrove.sh - play treasure-trove stream with vlc script > vlc http://lin2.ash.fast-serv.com:9022 > > If that script doesn't

Re: VLC missing sound

2011-11-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Please run the following script and see if you still don't get sound. Cut here: #!/bin/bash # file: treasuretrove.sh - play treasure-trove stream with vlc script vlc http://lin2.ash.fast-serv.com:9022 If that script doesn't work you could try: #!/bin/bash # file: folkalley.sh - play folk music s