smplayer for Lubuntu 14.04 does not play sound files and does not play sound for video files
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smplayer (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I have used smplayer successfully for several years, under several [L]ubuntu versions.
Once in a while, it would not play a file, but I did not investigate the issue, as it was not many, and I had Gnome mplayer to play those (although for Lubuntu 13.10 gnome mplayer would sometimes (?) hang after playing a file).
Now that I have installed Lubuntu 14.04, SMplayer, will play video files, but no sound is played. Also, SMPlayer does not play audio files at all (window comes up, but time remains at 0:00 0:00).
If invoked from the terminal, no errors are displayed.
If the properties are displayed, there is no audio codec listed for either the video files or audio files.
If I then select a codec and hit "Apply" and then replay, nothing is different.
I DO have the correct audio codecs, as gnome mplayer plays videos with sound, and sound files just fine, and shows the audio codecs it uses.
{When I attempted to select the smplayer audio codec, I selected the one with the same name that gnome-mplayer was successful in using}
All audio and video files originate with YouTube, as downloaded by gnash, and (for audio files) converted by WinFF.
I have tested this with .ogg and .mp3 audio files, and whatever video files that gnash produces [gnome-mplayer shows "ffh264" for the video codec, and video type h264. File Properties says "MPEG-4 video (video/mp4)"] .
-Scott Jacobs
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scott@scott-
Linux scott-AsusM2N68
scott@scott-
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
[This is actually Lubuntu]
This is SMPlayer v. 14.3.0 running on Linux [14.3.0-1~trusty1]
MPlayer2 2.0-701-
gnome-mplayer is version 1.0.8-2
The mplayer log (options -> view logs) would be very useful to try to figure out where the problem is.