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Apr 28, 2021 at 11:32 comment added Dmitry Grigoryev @Phill Thanks and sorry I couldn't help you more.
Apr 23, 2021 at 8:40 comment added Bamboo Thanks for your help with this! I've given you the bounty because you gave me a working solution, and I'm starting to realise getting it to work automatically is probably worth a separate question.
Apr 23, 2021 at 8:39 vote accept Bamboo
Apr 23, 2021 at 8:39 history bounty awarded Bamboo
Apr 21, 2021 at 9:30 comment added Bamboo Ok, so when I check systemctl --user status pulseaudio after a reboot it shows active (running) and --daemonize=no. It looks like it starts in systemd. I still get no audio from vlc until I open pavucontrol. Looking at the list under the status check it shows ...duplicated D-Bus path... for bluez, failed to register audio agent with ofono, and alsa-sink.c: Resume failed - no idea if that has any relevance
Apr 19, 2021 at 14:27 comment added Dmitry Grigoryev More information: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/204522/…
Apr 19, 2021 at 14:03 comment added Dmitry Grigoryev How is PulseAudio started on your system? Via systemd? xdg autostart? On demand via libpulse? On my system it starts via systemd, so I suggest you start by checking if the pulseaudio service is enabled and running. Or just run systemctl --user enable pulseaudio, reboot and check.
Apr 19, 2021 at 10:08 comment added Bamboo Actually, on further inspection, forcing the audio to pulseaudio makes no difference. The only thing that gets the audio to work is opening pavucontrol at least once after opening vlc - its a solution, but if I could get it to function automatically that would be better
Apr 19, 2021 at 9:41 comment added Bamboo Thanks for your help. Forcing the vlc to output module to pulseaudio got the audio to reach HDMI, but bizarrely it only got the background track to the video I was playing by default. I selected the option Audio>Stereo Mode>Mono (it was on Original) and the voice track came in. If I close pavucontrol, the audio stays, but it goes again if I change the Audio>Stereo Mode option.
Apr 19, 2021 at 7:20 history edited Dmitry Grigoryev CC BY-SA 4.0
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Apr 19, 2021 at 7:12 history answered Dmitry Grigoryev CC BY-SA 4.0