Comment 8 for bug 1974089

Thanks Mattia for your extra details on this bug, including the missing audio device, which is what helped to spark my consideration of vlc-plugin-pipewire being the culprit. Thanks also for confirming that removing vlc-plugin-pipewire on your system has fixed the problem, just as it did in my test VBox 20.04 installation.

New VLC packages (3.0.17.4-2~XX.04.sav1) are now built and available for all supported LTS series at ppa:savoury1/vlc3 and vlc-plugin-pipewire has been demoted from Recommends to Suggests for the new builds. Once again, for anyone who installed the earlier VLC package (3.0.17.4-2~XX.04.sav0) who still has no audio the following command should resolve the issue:

  sudo apt-get purge vlc-plugin-pipewire