No sound in Steam video previews

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#2331 · opened 2013-04-21 by Ghost99 · updated 2019-07-18 · 6 comments · github

GGhost99 2013-04-21 github

I can confirm problem only in Gentoo amd64 distribution.
I'm using pulseaudio sound system and sound is 100% working in my system. Adobe Flash also have no problems with sound. Even all Steam distributed games have no problems with sound. But video previews in Steam have no sound (already unmuted everything).

In stderr I have:

(steam:19854): Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead
ALSA lib conf.c:3314:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

/usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so does exist and readable.

Installed packages:
media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.26-r1
media-plugins/alsa-plugins-1.0.26
media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.25
media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.26-r2
media-sound/pulseaudio-2.1-r1
and latest Steam

Bbootkiller 2013-04-23 github

I'm also on Gentoo 64-bit with KDE and pulseaudio. Also have those same errors but videos have sound.

Jjjkinas 2013-04-25 github

Ignore my comment if irrelevant : On arch linux x64 I had to install the packages : lib32-alsa-plugins lib32-libcanberra-pulse , so that sound would work on flash videos. I don't know if that helps , I just hope that valve moves steam videos over to html5 soon.

TTele42 2013-04-26 github

@Ghost99 do you have steam-meta emerged in order to pull in a full set of dependencies?

GGhost99 2013-04-26 github

@Tele42 Yes, and I have enabled flash USE flag globally.

GGhost99 2013-05-09 github

Problem still present in current version with STEAM_RUNTIME enabled.

GGhost99 2013-05-19 github

In current version sound in previews is working. Maybe it was a system side problems, don't know what exactly.

Nothing extracted yet.