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alsa-lib 1.0.23 required

Asked by marcus aurelius

VLC aborts while playing and gives the following message.

Potential ALSA version problem:

VLC failed to initialize your sound output device (if any).

Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or higher to try to fix this issue.

Synaptic has only 1.0.22.

Where can the newer version be retrieved?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/unstable; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

Should do it.

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cecilia fx (ceciliafx) said : 		#2

is it safe to use an unstable alsa on Ubuntu 10.04?

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cecilia fx (ceciliafx) said : 		#3

is it safe to use an unstable alsa on Ubuntu 10.04?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Yeah its fine.

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Peter Martin (pe7ercom) said : 		#5

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 10.10 with VLC and Movie Player that both didn't play sound from .avi files.
With actionparsnip's command line upgrade of alsa-lib, the problem has been solved.

Thanks actionparsnip!

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