Re: Sound problems (mpd, mpv mainly)
Hi Sharon,
Glad you found a solution in pavucontrol.
When i saw your first post i was interested, because i had a similar
problem (mpv abruptly went silent) and no clue as to how to fix it,
and it arose at just about the same time as yours.
It affected mpv, but not firefox.
Although i don't know what i did to trigger the problem, in the case
of mpv you can give it an option to tell it explicitly what output
device to use for audio.
The command is something like:
mpv --audio-device=my-device name_of_file.mp4
So in my case, the command was
mpv --audio-device=alsa mane_of_file.mp4
If you have no idea what name to use (and i certainly didn't), mpv
will list them for you, if you run this command:
mpv --audio-device=help
Posting here just in case anybody is searching around for mpv silence
and hits this thread.
dan
On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Sharon Kimble
<boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> wrote:
> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:
>
>> Since an upgrade on 2017-03-28 my debian Jessie system is continuously
>> dropping my soundcard such that mpd and mpv have no sound at all, but,
>> at this time qmmp and mplayer2 both have sound and work as they should.
>>
>> My sound card is an on-board chip here -
>>
>> cat /proc/asound/cards
>> 0 [PCH ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
>> HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7330000 irq 50
>> 1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
>> HDA NVidia at 0xf7080000 irq 17
>>
>>
>> When I start or reboot this computer I do 'sudo alsactl init' to get
>> sound working, and then run alsamixer, do 'F6' to choose my soundcard
>> and choose option 0 in above list. Then I run mpd and can listen to my
>> music and online radio. But, now the sound card is being dropped so I
>> get zero sound from mpd and/or mpv when I want to watch a saved TV
>> programme.
>>
>> On the 28th these were the programmes that were upgraded and installed -
>>
>> Installed:
>> gtg:all 0.3.1-1
>> python-configobj:all 5.0.6-1
>> python-glade2:amd64 2.24.0-4
>> python-liblarch:all 2.1.0-2
>> python-simplejson:amd64 3.6.5-1
>> python-xdg:all 0.25-4
>>
>> Upgraded:
>> chromium:amd64 56.0.2924.76-1~deb8u1 => 57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1
>> eject:amd64 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1 => 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1+deb8u1
>> firefox-esr:amd64 45.7.0esr-1~deb8u1 => 45.8.0esr-1~deb8u1
>> gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0:amd64 1.4.4-2 => 1.4.4-2+deb8u1
>> gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0:amd64 1.4.4-2 => 1.4.4-2+deb8u1
>> gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64 1.4.4-2.1+deb8u1 => 1.4.4-2.1+deb8u2
>> gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:amd64 1.4.4-2 => 1.4.4-2+deb8u1
>> gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:amd64 1.4.4-2+deb8u2 => 1.4.4-2+deb8u3
>> gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly:amd64 1.4.4-2+b1 => 1.4.4-2+deb8u1
>> gstreamer1.0-x:amd64 1.4.4-2 => 1.4.4-2+deb8u1
>> iceweasel:all 45.7.0esr-1~deb8u1 => 45.8.0esr-1~deb8u1
>> libaudiofile1:amd64 0.3.6-2+deb8u1 => 0.3.6-2+deb8u2
>> libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:amd64 1.4.4-2.1+deb8u1 => 1.4.4-2.1+deb8u2
>> libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:amd64 1.4.4-2 => 1.4.4-2+deb8u1
>> libgstreamer1.0-0:amd64 1.4.4-2 => 1.4.4-2+deb8u1
>> libjbig2dec0:amd64 0.11+20120125-1 => 0.13-4~deb8u1
>> libsmbclient:amd64 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u2 => 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u4
>> libwbclient0:amd64 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u2 => 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u4
>> samba-libs:amd64 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u2 => 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u4
>> tzdata-java:all 2016j-0+deb8u1 => 2017a-0+deb8u1
>> tzdata:all 2016j-0+deb8u1 => 2017a-0+deb8u1
>> virtualbox-5.0:amd64 5.0.32-112930~Debian~jessie => 5.0.36-114008~Debian~jessie
>> vivaldi-stable:amd64 1.7.735.46-1 => 1.8.770.50-1
>>
>> I have since removed virtualbox and Vivaldi-stable thinking that they
>> were the cause of the problem, but its made no difference.
>>
>> The only way I have found to regain the sound for mpd/mpv is to reboot,
>> but its now beginning to happen several times a day and its impractical
>> to keep rebooting.
>>
>> How can I get sound continuously with mpd and mpv without the card being
>> seemingly dropped please?
>>
>
> And the missing link that got it all working nicely again was
> 'pavucontrol'. Installing and using that regained sound again.
>
> Sharon.
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