VLC no sound

[jackmule]

I installed VLC with slapt-get and there is no sound. In the audio tab, Audio Device is grayed out. Also Dragon Player does not work at all. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[mimosa]

I just looked at vlc and that item is greyed out too - until I actually play something.

Rebooting sometimes cures odd glitches I get with one app or another's sound. I assume you're getting sound from apps other than the two you mention?

[jackmule]

I just checked VLC again. I am getting sound from my mp3 and flac files. Still no sound when playing DVDs.

[Shador]

Do you have all codecs etc installed? Especially libdvd*?

[mimosa]

"Install mutimedia codecs" from the menu, if you haven't already.

[jackmule]

They are all installed through the menu.

I will double check when I get home for the one mentioned by Shador. Thanks!

[jackmule]

I had installed K9Copy and Xine as this was one of the dependents of K9Copy. Could these be the culprits?

[Andyun]

If to your computer is connected web camera, then the system may incorrectly detect a sound card to use. Check it out in the menu (Xfce) --> System --> ALSA sound card, also Multimedia --> Mixer --> Sound Card.

[jackmule]

libdvd* are all installed. I should have mentioned I am using KDE, not XFCE.

[Andyun]

"ALSA sound card" - this is a part of salixtools-gtk, command "gksu gtkalsasetup" in the terminal. Try also the command "alsamixer" (alsa-utils) in the terminal.