Was: Audio not working after updates F42

[Philip Rhoades]

People,

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!

Thanks,

Phil.

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM Philip Rhoades via users
 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