#1065166 mpv: no sound when playing video

Package:
mpv
Source:
mpv
Description:
video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2
Submitter:
Jérémy Lal
Date:
2025-08-10 12:23:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1065166#5
Date:
2024-03-01 10:41:06 UTC
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There is no sound when playing a video (mkv or mp4).

This happened some time in the last week of february.

Playing a sound file still works, though.

Note: using debian/trixie, not sid

#1065166#10
Date:
2025-08-10 12:09:31 UTC
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Here are the fields that are relevant, when pressing the `i` key
AO: pipewire
AO Volume: 0% (Muted)
Device: Autoselect device

For the past... while, I have resorted to watching videos using ffplay
which has been... less than ideal.
Hopefully this can help with fixing the bug

#1065166#15
Date:
2025-08-10 12:19:54 UTC
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By doing Ctrl+P, or clicking the hamburger menu, you can bring up the
menu to select Audio Devices.
From there, what I did was select pulse, instead of the default
pipewire.
For some reason, that seemed to do the trick. The only issue is making
this the default, and figuring out what _exactly_ is broken here.
Hopefully this fix works for you too.

(I'm on Debian sid btw)