Pipelight

No audio in pipelight but sound works fine for YouTube

Asked by Ben Bergman

I just setup a new computer running Arch Linux. I have installed pipelight form the AUR (aur/pipelight 1:0.2.3-1). When I try to play a show, the video plays and looks fine, but I cannot hear any audio. Sound works fine in other things such as YouTube, so this leads me to believe it is an issue with pipelight (or my configuration of it).

I'm not sure what other information to dump here as I'm new to pipelight. Please let me know if there are any logs or anything I can provide to help.

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Sebastian Lackner (slackner) said : 		#1

Hi,

please take a look at the following FAQ and check if one of these methods helps in your case:
https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+faq/2444

Please note that the wine path is a bit different on Arch Linux, you can access the winecfg menu with:
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-pipelight WINEARCH=win32 /usr/bin/bin/winecfg

You can also try to use the winetricks method described there to force the usage of ALSA, if the pulseaudio backend doesn't work as expected or if you're not using pulseaudio at all.

If none of these methods helps please attach a log containing the stdout&stderr output when starting your browser from a terminal - just upload the resulting logfile somewhere:
firefox &> ~/pipelight.log

Sebastian

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Ben Bergman (a03e1as2-cf2-chgtaa3q) said : 		#2

I had read through that question before, but misunderstood what it was referring to.

Following those procedures alone did not fix my problem, but I noticed that when I opened the audio tab of winecfg, I got an error saying "ALSA lib dlmisc.c:252:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so". After installing lib32-libpulse and lib32-alsa-plugins, my sound is fixed.

Thanks for your help. :)