No Sound playing .wmv files in FC8

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Thu Feb 19 18:02:24 UTC 2009


FC8 / KDE

Can play audio/video on Flash,Youtube.
But when playing .wmv files, have Video but no Sound.

I don't get any error message about hardware or missing codecs.

No snd, alsa error messages, in /var/log/messages.

But pulseaudio errors in /var/log/messages, below is error message, and 
it shows at three different times in messages.


pulseaudio[2444]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Feb 15 15:25:24 localhost pulseaudio[2444]: main.c: 
setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Feb 15 15:25:24 localhost pulseaudio[2444]: main.c: 
setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
Feb 15 15:25:35 localhost pulseaudio[2444]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 
session manager not running.
Feb 15 15:25:35 localhost pulseaudio[2444]: module.c: Failed to load 
module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""):




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