[SOLVED] Sound Lost on Mageia 2 to 3 Upgrade

[isadora]

I upgrade Mageia 2 to Mageia 3. Since then, neither Amarok nor Mplayer can play sound. The KDE startup sound, however, is played.

The computer's a Thinkpad T420i.

lspci says:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

Sound config in Mageia Control Center uses Intel HDA Driver (snd_hda_intel [ALSA] ) with Pulse Audi and Glitch-Free Mode enabled.

Mplayer is set to use Pulse Audio. When invoked from the console, it complains:

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Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
Cannot find codec 'aac' in libavcodec...
ADecoder init failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening audio decoder: [spdif] libavformat/spdifenc audio pass-through decoder.
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, iec61937le, 768.0 kbit/50.00% (ratio: 96000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [spdifaac] afm: spdif (libavformat/spdifenc AAC pass-through decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
[format] Sample format little-endian IEC61937 not yet supported
[libaf] Reinitialization did not work, audio filter 'format' returned error code -2
[libaf] Unable to setup filter system can not meet sound-card demands, please send a bug report.
Couldn't find matching filter/ao format!
Audio: no sound


Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?

[Lebarhon]

Hello,
May be you should check that you have the codecs faad2 and libmad installed.

[alexbarnes]

That worked! It needed faad2.

You are a wonderful person and may you be blessed with excellent Linux support for all your hardware!

[isadora]

Please alexbarnes, mark the topic accordingly.
You can do so by editing the title/subject in the first message of this topic.
Place [SOLVED] in front of the title and you're ready!

Thank you, and a good day!!!!

[zooplah]

I upgrade Mageia 2 to Mageia 3. Since then, neither Amarok nor Mplayer can play sound. The KDE startup sound, however, is played.

The computer's a Thinkpad T420i.

lspci says:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

Sound config in Mageia Control Center uses Intel HDA Driver (snd_hda_intel [ALSA] ) with Pulse Audi and Glitch-Free Mode enabled.

Mplayer is set to use Pulse Audio. When invoked from the console, it complains:

Code: Select all

Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
Cannot find codec 'aac' in libavcodec...
ADecoder init failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
Requested audio codec family [faad] (afm=faad) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening audio decoder: [spdif] libavformat/spdifenc audio pass-through decoder.
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, iec61937le, 768.0 kbit/50.00% (ratio: 96000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [spdifaac] afm: spdif (libavformat/spdifenc AAC pass-through decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
[format] Sample format little-endian IEC61937 not yet supported
[libaf] Reinitialization did not work, audio filter 'format' returned error code -2
[libaf] Unable to setup filter system can not meet sound-card demands, please send a bug report.
Couldn't find matching filter/ao format!
Audio: no sound


How did you make it that far? All I get when running mplayer is that it can't find the driver 'alsa' or connect to the pulseaudio server. Specifying the good old reliable oss output doesn't work either, because /dev/dsp doesn't exist. I understandably just downgraded back to Mageia 2.

[alexbarnes]

Hmm, can't say, it just worked that way. I also recall while experimenting with configuration settings in mplayer that I saw some of the errors you're reporting.

Something that might help is to try the tainted version of mplayer. I marked the thread [SOLVED] but then found some additional codecs that weren't working, and removing mplayer and installing mplayer-tainted (and dependencies) seems to have completely resolved my sound issues.