Re: No sound on etch when using video players

[Jo Shields <Jo.Shields@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

Sam Varghese wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:46:27AM +0100 Jo Shields said:
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> > Sam Varghese wrote:
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> > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:55:44PM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said:
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> > > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:47:29AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
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> > > > > Yes, the sound daemon is running. And the gstreamer packs are installed.
> > > > >
> > > > > The user is already a member of the audio group (which I presume is what
> > > > > you mean).
> > > > >
> > > > > Same situation. Sound with CDs, not with videos or DVDs.
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> > > > Is mixer volume for PCM set high enough and unmuted?  Playing audio CDs
> > > > use one of the line in volume settings after all, not PCM.
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> > > >         
> > > That's fine as well. It's just a mystery to me. And very frustrating as
> > > well.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the tip anyway.
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> > If you have a digital output switch mixer, mute/unmute it
> >
> > e.g. http://apebox.org/modules/images//Miscelaneous%20Junk/digitalout.png
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> I've looked long and hard for an equaliser similar to this but can't
> find one. What's the name of the app in the link you provided?
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> Thanks,
>
> Sam

It's probably xfce4-mixer, but you'll find the same functionality in 
alsamixer or alsamixergui too