audio conflicts: VLC vs Totem (gstreammer) or Rythmbox

[Jurgis Pralgauskis]

Binary package hint: vlc

if I start Totem or Rythmox and VLC after that, VLC gives no sound (video is OK)
if I start VLC and Totem or Rythmox after that, they don't play -- just show paused (well the movie in totem seems to progres veryveryvery slowly ~one fps , but still no sound:)

I can play several VLC in one time with no problem
and also the same "no problem" for any combination of Totem and Rythmbox

I also tried starting them from cmdline, so vlc gave some output (at some time)
VLC media player 0.8.6e Janus
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:874:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
[00000338] jack audio output error: failed to connect to JACK server
[00000338] oss audio output error: cannot open audio device (/dev/dsp)
[00000338] main audio output error: couldn't find a filter for the conversion
[00000338] main audio output error: couldn't create audio output pipeline
[00000390] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:2 samplerate:48000 bitrate:192000
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:874:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

in my sound playback settings "Autodetect" is mostly set
when vlc is playing they give no sound when testing,
but if I chose "ALSA", the tests do ok, and the conflicts dissapear
if I choose "pulse..", the problem appears again

so I am not sure if this is more vlc or more pulse-audio issue

[Paul Martrenchar (pmartrenchar)]

I think that it's pulseaudio that is badly installed. I also had that bug.

Just reinstall pulseaudio.
apt-get install --reinstall pulseaudio

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Does the pulseaudio process show in the process list when this issue occurs?
$ ps -A | grep pulseaudio

[Jurgis Pralgauskis (jurgis-pralgauskis)]

with april 10 updates it works ok now

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Thanks, please reopen the bug if you still get the issue.