Arch Sound in Videos

[PermaBanned]

So when i try to play a video in VLC it plays with no audio, i have all the gstreamer packages installed and i use OSS, sound works perfectly when playing through Youtube or anything in the browser.

Running it in terminal comes up with:

[0x8791244] signals interface error: signal 17 overriden (0xb2c2a460)
[0x8791244] signals interface error:  /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(?)[(nil)]

when i try to play a video... any ideas?

Merci beaucoup!

 

[cb_linus]

I must admit, I'm intrigued to try OSSv4 now, but you could try the following:

vlc

* Write the following line to ~/.vlc/vlcrc

aout=oss

*
* Alternately:

From VLC click tools --> preferences --> Audio
From the "type" menu, select "UNIX OSS audio output"

For more info, go here

 

[PermaBanned]

Cheers, that seems to have worked. Although, it could just have been that i'm an idiot and the video i was using didn't actually have any audio... i guess we'll never know

EDIT: Although, interesting occurence, it seems only one program can output sound at any one time?

 

[Niju Rosu]

Hmm, that doesn't sound right. (see what I did there)

Not too clued up on OSS but you should certainly be able to have more than one application giving sound.

 

[Hairybudda]

This is why I just use alsa