OpenShot Video Editor

No sound when previewing

Asked by Justin Breithaupt

When I preview my video project there is no sound. The mute buttons are not clicked. I'm using ALSA and not pulse audio. It didn't work with Pulse Audio either.

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Andy Finch (fincha) said : 		#1

Have you got libsdl1.2debian-alsa installed (the version number might be different to this, depending on what is in your distributions repository)?

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Justin Breithaupt (usacomputertech) said : 		#2

I did this and it fixed the problem. What does this package do?

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Andy Finch (fincha) said : 		#3

The preview window in Openshot is an SDL window. libsdl enables SDL to output to your onbaord sound system.

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JDS (jsilveronnelly) said : 		#4

I've tried this and I still have no sound on Ubuntu 10.04. What else could I try?

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JDS (jsilveronnelly) said : 		#5

It turns out I have no sound only on *.3gp files captured from my android phone. Is there a sound codec or something missing to support this file type?

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JDS (jsilveronnelly) said : 		#6

I found a workaround, which is to convert the files to .AVI first.

I used the miksoft video converter, which turns out to be awesome:
http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm