Several years ago installed Lubuntu but could not get a useable video player [vlc installed fine, but no audio regardless of what I tried]. Have recently installed latest Ubuntu, but same problem -- hard to believe that after all these years still no fix on this vlc item; any ideas? what do you use for watching movies?

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Since many thousands of people are satisfied with VLC both on Linux & Windows - maybe the problem is with your setup, and not the software?

If you want to try and solve your problem, post some relevant info (see 1st link in my signature).

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This sounds VERY familiar:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ng-4175689670/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...io-4175691844/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...cs-4175692376/

Scientific Linux, Lubuntu, Ubuntu, Zorin, ALL with the exact same issue; odd that (as ondoho said), many, MANY thousands of people use VLC with no issues but it seems to be broken for you. You've gone through Fedora, OpenSUSE, Scientific, Ubuntu, Lubuntu, and Zorin (from what I can tell), and have nothing but install problems, wifi problems, sound problems, etc. And you still think that, somehow....it's the fault of the distributions/software??? Do you not see a common thread here??

And as you've been told many times previously as well, you post NO DETAILS past Ubuntu and VLC. What version of Ubuntu? VLC? On what hardware? Do you see any error(s)/message(s) when you run it from a terminal? ANYTHING we can work with, or do you still think we enjoy guessing??

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Does the issue just effects VLC?
What about Firefox and watching some online videos?

Recently, I was able to fix no sound for Quake 4.
Apparently, for some bizarre reason, the video card's HDMI port is considered a sound device even though I have nothing connected to it.
I have my monitor connected to a DisplayPort and my monitor does not have speakers.

In the file
~/quake4/q4base/Quake4Config.cfg

change
seta s_alsa_pcm "hw:0,0"
to
seta s_alsa_pcm "hw:1,0"

If you open the command prompt of Linux and run
aplay -l

^^^^^That command shows the list of sound devices.
The true sound card is card #1

This looks like it is caused due to a PEBKAC error.

As others mentioned VLC works fine for almost everyone else on Linux, Windows and Android. In fact I am using it right now to listen to music.

Please share what error message you get when you play the file. Does the file have audio when you play it on another computer. Is any sound (beeps/desktop sound affects etc) working on the system? Are your speakers connected to the computer?

No error messages, no anything. Thank you for your various advice. I have used numerous other OSes now and over the years and in everyone of them have never had any problem with vlc which clearly is the gold standard for videos. But the various ubuntu brands [no matter how many fixes I try] seem to just not work for me; a shame, but no sense fighting karma in this case, so will just keep with what works for me and wish all ubuntu users farewell.

I will chime in and say I have lubuntu 20.04 installed on my linux evaluation machine. No issues with vlc on this installation. The only time I had an issue with vlc was version 8 on windows 10 loved to crash. But the same version was fine on Linux mint.

My first advice was to post more relevant info. You didn't. Your loss. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I have KUbuntu installed on a few laptops and two desktops and a server. VLC runs fine on all. I do have one laptop that thinks the headphones are plugged in (another story) so have to re-select the internal speakers every time it is rebooted. However, that means not just VLC, but on-line videos have no sound until re-selected.