How I fixed my missing sound on RHEL 7.2

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Scientific Linux 7.2 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Clone)

Since the last "yum upgrade", VLC (from nux) is completely quiet. No sound at all. Everything else has sound but not VLC. I tried both nux's 2.2 and 2.1. VLC is set to "defaults" and is not muted. I have uninstalled and reinstall several times. No joy.

It took me a bit, but I fixed it.

I had to install pavucontrol-3.0-1.fc22.x86_64.rpm. Open pavucontrol. Then go to "playback", start VLC playing (which shows in panel), then change VLC's playback device to "Built-in Analog Analog Stereo" from "HDMI". Did the trick.

Apparently every audio program can choose its playback device. VLC was stuck on HDMI. (I did try to change this in Preferences, Audio.) Bummer.

Now I have a cool pavucontrol for pulse audio.

Hope this helps someone else.

-T