Bug#802016: Bug#801448: vlc: VLC change audio device without obvious reason

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: found 802016 7.1-2

On 2015-10-19 15:14:37 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > On 2015-10-10 10:52:55, Gabriel Corona wrote:
> > > When using VLC with KDE5 without pulseaudio, VLC keeps changing the
> > > output audio device. I've configured VLC to use the "HDA Intel ALC888
> > > Analog Audio Device" but it switches back to "HDA NVidida, HDMI0
> > > Hardware device with all software conversion" (which means that I do
> > > not have any sound):

> On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 22:52:47 +0200 Christoph Egger <christoph at debian.org> wrote:
> >   While listening to mpd sound suddenly stopped in the middle of a
> > song. No action at all on the active X session at that time. Turns out
> > pulseaudio switched to the second soundcard for no apparent reason
> > whatsoever (didn't find any logoutput as well).

I've just had a similar problem: audio suddenly stopped working
with both Iceweasel and VLC. I eventually saw with pavucontrol
in its Playback tab that switching

  GK208 HDMI/DP Audio Controller Digital Stereo (HDMI)

to

  Built-in Audio Analog Stereo

solved the problem for each concerned application.

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