Hi,

With GStreamer Amarok plays the sound fine, but I swiched to VLC to have Amarok dispay wma files in its local folders view and it worked for a while, but sometime during this week it stopped. I can hear Skype sound during system startup, but no system startup sound.
Amarok does not even show up in pavucontrol. VLC player works fine and shows up in pavucontrol during playback. I tried to login as a brand new user, but after changing GStreamer to VLC and logout/login the same situation.

When I run Amarok from command line, among other lines of its output I see:

[0x7f03f8011a68] main audio output error: no suitable audio output module
[0x7f0404087968] main decoder error: failed to create audio output

How can I get back the sound?

You should check your multimedia settings in systemsettings -> Multimedia -> Phonon and test the output devices listed there. Something must have triggered a change there. FWIW it would be nice to know what you changed on your system prior to this.

On some distributions, the Pulseaudio plugin is a seperate package to the main VLC package, so please make sure libvlc-pulse or similar is installed.

I was having the same problem . I just updated my VLC and the problem got solved.

bcooksley wrote:On some distributions, the Pulseaudio plugin is a seperate package to the main VLC package, so please make sure libvlc-pulse or similar is installed.

Installing libvlc-pulse did the job. Thank you!

bcooksley wrote:On some distributions, the Pulseaudio plugin is a seperate package to the main VLC package, so please make sure libvlc-pulse or similar is installed.

Thanks, i'm on Linux Mint 13 kde, the package is called vlc-plugin-pulse. It solved my audio problem too