I’m having an issue where numerous apps downloaded from Itch.io do not play sound, and VLC media player stops playing sound when my computer is under load. I saw someone else say this issue could be caused by a Linux machine not having the 32 bit sound libraries needed.
But I frankly have no idea how to install those, nor am I 100% sure if that’s my issue, it’s just my only lead. Can anyone help?
Do we know what platform itch.io games are running on? Are they steam/flatpak/appimage or something else, for example?
vlc not playing sound could just be a system load thing, but we should look for more information to begin with. I would not expect that to be related to 32 bit libraries—those aren’t required in general.
Can you please check your system logs when you notice this issue? You should hopefully see error messages there that tell us what’s going on:
We’ll cover VLC first because upon examination the Itch.io issue is of my own making and would require different steps.
System load would make sense as the cause - what happens is that I’ll pause my music and alt tab, maybe to Youtube, then tab back and it won’t play music from VLC after I unpause it, it just cuts off. I have to rewind a couple seconds in VLC and that seems to fix the issue generally.
Running journalctl in the terminal gives me a lot of data I’m not quite sure what to do with. What should I be looking for here? Or is there a command I can run that gives data specifically related to VLC?
Which VLC version are you using? RPM or flatpak?
Which ffmpeg version are you using, the default or the one from RPMFusion?
I THINK RPM, it’s downloaded via the Software Manager
Oh, and I’m… not really sure what ffmpeg is? But I don’t believe I’ve downloaded anything with that name, so I’d assume default.
Okay, these are two things that you can try out, they might improve the situation.
For VLC you can try the flatpak version, by uninstalling the current version and choosing the flatpak variant in the Software Manager:
ffmpeg is a multimedia framework that VLC uses to play media, the standard version does not work perfectly for everyone. You can replace it by a more complete version from the community maintained repository RPMFusion. You can find the instructions for that below:
I think this can happen with an audio stream. Should not happen with a local file, though.
Switching to Flathub seems to have worked! TY
If I feel like fixing the other issue i’ll make a new thread for it xD
