VLC 0.9.9a no audio

[jgg]

I have a fresh VLC 0.9.9a compilation and when trying to play any local file or open a RTSP session I get the same error:

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dulceangustia@jet:~/vlc-0.9.9a$ ./vlc rtsp://147.83.47.178:8554/rock_GARBAGE_medium.mpg VLC media player 0.9.9a Grishenko [00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.9a Grishenko - (c) 1996-2009 the VideoLAN team [00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure '--with-live555-tree=extras/live' [00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C" [00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. [00000377] main window error: no vout window module matched "any" [00000378] oss audio output error: cannot open audio device (/dev/dsp) [00000378] main audio output error: couldn't find a filter for the conversion [00000378] main audio output error: couldn't create audio output pipeline ...

I get video but no audio at all.

Any idea about what is going on here?


Thanks.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Looks like you did not build ALSA and/or PulseAudio support, and some other program is keeping OSS busy.

[jgg]

I forgot to say that I tested it in 2 boxes and got the same results, with (apparently) nothing using OSS. I didn't know that I needed to enable ALSA or PulseAudio in VLC compilation, I always compiled without explicitly telling it (as you can see in the previous post I used './configure --with-live555-tree=extras/live').

[jgg]

How can I check if OSS is set to ALSA or PulseAudio or whichever audio driver? Do I need to have installed any related package? I've installed vlc-plugin-alsa and I've read that vlc-plugin-pulse solved this issue but I can't find this package anywhere. Moreover, I don't really have any /dev/dsp file.

Any idea would be much appreciated. Thank you for your answers.

[jgg]

Solved.

Solution:

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modprobe snd-pcm-oss

To allow the O.S. to load it on boot time add 'snd-pcm-oss' to the /etc/modules file, and that's all.


Regards.