https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505653
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REPORTED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |NOT A BUG --- Comment #13 from [email protected] --- After installing fedora in a VM and spending several hours on investigating things, I think I "understand" what's going on. The problem is that fedora, unlike most other distros, ships vlc-plugin-pipewire by default when installing vlc. This is a third-party plugin not made by VLC itself and is apparently rather problematic. If you uninstall this vlc-plugin-pipewire plugin, vlc should fall back to the first-party vlc-plugin-pulseadio, which will use the built-in pulseaudio compatibility of pipewire. This is what most other distros do, and this should work fine with mono audio. (I tested this.) So, there's several possible actions to improve things: - file a bug against the upstream vlc-plugin-pipewire project (if it doesn't exist already) - file a bug against fedora to have them either fix or remove the problematic pipewire plugin Feel free to pick up any of these items as I will not do so; I'm not a user of either myself. I found out that I can work around the problem is Kasts by forcing vlc to stereo mode when constructing the libvlc instance, but I'm rather hesitant because this *will* force 5.1 and 7.1 audio streams to get downconverted to regular stereo for everyone. I think this is a pretty big trade-off for what is essentially a (fedora) distro issue. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
