On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM Philip Rhoades via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
I don't think it is related to the OP Subject but I am not sure either:
I used dnf to upgrade from 41 a couple of weeks ago and everything seemed to be fine. Because YT ads annoy me, I usually bulk download a bunch of videos that look interesting from the RSS feeds I get and then play them all from a script with mpv. Last night or today I think I have done something that is preventing the sound from working. After hours of messing around I found:
mpv playing mp3s works fine.
mpv playing mp4s works fine for a new tst user but not for me (phr).
all the stuff I looked at seems to be working fine (alsa, pipewire
etc) but using this switch in the command fixed the no sound problem:
mpv --audio-device=alsa . . .
and:
mpv --audio-device=pipewire . . .
fails. So at least I am operational again but I don't know what the problem is for usr "phr".
Suggestions about how to debug would be appreciated!
How to troubleshoot sound problems, https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/how-to-troubleshoot-sound-problems/.
Jeff