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Mint 13KDE - anyone else have sound problems? (SOLVED)

Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:22 pm
by phd7
Hi,
When pausing a DVD, or muting a video streamed via http..the sound doesnt always come back, without me having to jig the playback controls or reselecting the audio track. It doesnt always happen.

I have opened VLC via terminal but no error messages are shown.

I gave it a few weeks of updates but it is still happening?
Doesnt happen on any other distros I use.

Anyone else have this problem?

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00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series]

Re: Mint 13KDE - anyone else have sound problems?

Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 2:01 am
by Fandangio
I am definitely not an expert in audio config but I have experienced a similar problem and I think I have solved it.

Just right click on the sound icon (Kmix) and then swap the master channel. It worked for me.

Re: Mint 13KDE - anyone else have sound problems?

Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 6:07 am
by water spirit
[quote="phd7"] Anyone else have this problem?

Yes, I have the same thing happening with VLC, playing videos stored on my hard drive, pause the play back and it will not resume.
Kaffeine playing same videos is OK, resume playing after pause works, must be a VLC issue.

Re: Mint 13KDE - anyone else have sound problems?

Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 6:33 am
by midas
I had only problems with VLC and no sound. Therefore you have to install the 'VLC-plugin-pulse' from Synaptic. I am not sure we're talking about the same issue here...but installing the plug-in is usually a good thing to do.

Re: Mint 13KDE - anyone else have sound problems?

Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:05 am
by water spirit
midas wrote:I had only problems with VLC and no sound. Therefore you have to install the 'VLC-plugin-pulse' from Synaptic. I am not sure we're talking about the same issue here...but installing the plug-in is usually a good thing to do.
I installed the 'VLC-plugin-pulse' from Synaptic and it fixed my issue, Thank you.

Re: Mint 13KDE - anyone else have sound problems?

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:30 pm
by phd7
Fandangio wrote:I am definitely not an expert in audio config but I have experienced a similar problem and I think I have solved it.

Just right click on the sound icon (Kmix) and then swap the master channel. It worked for me.
Idid it a slightly different way, via multimedai/phonon in system settings and changed all I could to HDMi audio. Seems to have done the trick, thanks

DVD sound perfect in SMplayer. VLC is indeed buggy re: sound

Re: Mint 13KDE - anyone else have sound problems?

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 1:01 am
by pabloikba
phd7 wrote:
Fandangio wrote:I am definitely not an expert in audio config but I have experienced a similar problem and I think I have solved it.

Just right click on the sound icon (Kmix) and then swap the master channel. It worked for me.
Idid it a slightly different way, via multimedai/phonon in system settings and changed all I could to HDMi audio. Seems to have done the trick, thanks

DVD sound perfect in SMplayer. VLC is indeed buggy re: sound
How did you get to multimedia/phonon? I can't find anything in systems settings resembling that.
Thanks

Re: Mint 13KDE - anyone else have sound problems? (SOLVED)

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 9:16 am
by LindseyD.
System Settings-->Hardware-->Multimedia (the last icon on the right)

PS: I find it easier to just type what I'm looking for in the search box--then the appropriate icon gets highlighted.

Re: Mint 13KDE - anyone else have sound problems? (SOLVED)

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:51 pm
by MrSlip
Installing the vlc pulse plugin fixed the problem for me. Thanks.

Re: Mint 13KDE - anyone else have sound problems?

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:00 pm
by LindseyD.
Fandangio wrote:I am definitely not an expert in audio config but I have experienced a similar problem and I think I have solved it.

Just right click on the sound icon (Kmix) and then swap the master channel. It worked for me.
Fandangio, I hope you're still here. What do you mean by "swap"? I've tried every sound solution except this and the HDMI one suggested above, because I don't see any HDMI options to choose.

PS: KDE keeps giving me messages about sound devices that have been removed. No idea what they're talking about.

Re: Mint 13KDE - anyone else have sound problems? (SOLVED)

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:37 pm
by aceleron
MrSlip wrote:Installing the vlc pulse plugin fixed the problem for me. Thanks.
Idem.

Maybe this problem is solved in mint 14 edition.