No Sound after VLC installation

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  1. PirateOne

    PirateOne

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    Hi!

    I'm a newbie to Linpus and installation under linux,

    my sytem is Linpus Linux Lite v1.0.9.E

    I installed the vlc media player according to
    http://www.unixmen.com/index.php?op...a-players-in-linpus&catid=13:linpus&Itemid=20

    i opened a shell, i.e. [user@localhost Documents]$

    and followed the second alternative, i.e.
    Problem: when I open a video (wmv) with vlc I see the video but have no sound. There is no volume control bar in Linpus, I only have the one of the media player, and I checked that it is not mute. Moreover, when I now open a video with mplayer (which worked before), there is no sound anymore too, and the video goes faster than usual in the beginning.

    Before I followed the above alternative, I installed SMplayer. Maybe there is some incompatibility?

    Thanks for help,
    Martin
     
    PirateOne, Mar 5, 2009
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    Hi PirateOne,


    Make sure that you have the added fedora updates repository.
    Open pirut (add & remove programs entry) go in edit/repositories(Ctrl+R) and check the updates repository, you should have both fedora and livna already checked. Close the pirut window and open a terminal as root then type
    yum install vlc.

    If you still have issues others have found this worked for them

    su
    sudo yum update fedora-release
    sudo yum install vlc

    then just answer yes to all that you need.
     
    barrie, Mar 5, 2009
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  3. PirateOne

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    Hi barrie!

    thanks for your response (sorry for the delay, I had some internet problem).
    Actually the problem was a very simple one: I just had to restart the system :roll: I always ended the process "pcm" via the system monitor when the media player was stuck - obviously this affected the vlc player ,

    sorry for wasting your time :oops:

    Best regards, Martin
     
    PirateOne, Mar 8, 2009
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    barrie

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    Hi Martin,

    No problem, it’s nice to hear all is OK. :)
     
    barrie, Mar 9, 2009
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