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As described in the title, my dumb ass cat stepped on my keyboard, and now VLC has no sound.

I have determined that it is not a problem with the speakers or connection by playing youtube videos with sound. I have reset the VLC preferences, and that didn't work. I purged VLC and reinstalled it, and that didn't work.

I really don't know what it is. I started pressing random buttons but still, haven't found what button the kitty inadvertently to completely and permanently mute VLC and no other program.

Does anybody have any clues?

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  • Was the other players play sound? if so VLC crashed
    – NIMISHAN
    Dec 31, 2015 at 11:55
  • On VLC, at the top where it says "audio", verify if under , "mute" hasn’t been selected :).
    – Tshilidzi Mudau
    Dec 31, 2015 at 12:03
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    For the futur, this is the only advice I can do suck.uk.com/products/cat-top-scratcher Love cats :p
    – Quentin
    Dec 31, 2015 at 12:06
  • Mute is not selected.
    – Push
    Dec 31, 2015 at 12:07
  • I just tried downloading a Gnome video player, and the volume is turned off on that as well. May be a system problem as opposed to a VLC problem, but sound works fine on Youtube and the drum prompt sounds up when I log in or out.
    – Push
    Dec 31, 2015 at 12:11

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Reset to default
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I had the same problem and looking at one of the answers saying that he could have stepped on two key at the same time. After trying all the advice I started pressing different keys together. And Viola! I pressed the M and L together and my sound returned. Hope this will solve some people's problem!

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Reboot your computer. If that fails, try the following in VLC.

  1. Open a video file in VLC
  2. Right Click -> Audio -> Audio Track -> Disable
  3. Right Click -> Audio -> Audio Track -> Track 1
  4. Press Play
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  • Those were the first two things I tried, and neither worked.
    – Push
    Dec 31, 2015 at 11:55
  • This may sound obvious but how about the volume inside the VLC app?
    – 16b7195abb140a3929bbc322d1c6f1
    Dec 31, 2015 at 11:58
  • It's at 100% volume, and not muted.
    – Push
    Dec 31, 2015 at 12:00
  • What steps did you take to uninstall and reinstall VLC?
    – 16b7195abb140a3929bbc322d1c6f1
    Dec 31, 2015 at 12:00
  • sudo apt-get purge vlc & sudo apt-get install vlc
    – Push
    Dec 31, 2015 at 12:02
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Here is silver bullet solution: 

sudo apt-get remove --purge vlc alsa-base pulseaudio indicator-sound 
sudo apt-get install vlc alsa-base pulseaudio indicator-sound
sudo alsa force-reload
killall pulseaudio; rm -r ~/.config/pulse/* ; rm -r ~/.pulse*; rm ~/.config/pulse

Go to Tools > Preferences > Audio. Change output module to ALSA audio output Then restart your machine.

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  • That didn't solve it.
    – Push
    Dec 31, 2015 at 12:17
  • Right click,->preferences and clicked "reset preferences". Then restarted vlc?
    – Tshilidzi Mudau
    Dec 31, 2015 at 12:21
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  1. Go into System

  2. Then sound

  3. Select Applications

Applications tab : In VLC media player see slider volume control may be the volume control was at nil (left hand side).

  1. Slide the control to the right gave
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  • Nope, volume slider is to the right.
    – Push
    Dec 31, 2015 at 12:06
  • Do you speak about the same slider? You should have VLC playing a video do see the slider of VLC application. It's not the Output volume slider, but the VLC media player specific slider.
    – Quentin
    Dec 31, 2015 at 12:11
  • By "System", do you mean going into Tools -> preferences -> audio -> and the volume slider there?
    – Push
    Dec 31, 2015 at 12:13

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