To save space, I then run the ~5GB file through Handbrake and play the <1GB file with VLC. They're much more convenient to view that way, and MakeMKV coupled with manual struggle with scratch removal enables playing long lost movies that still crash on DVD players. The audio issue seems to happen mostly or always after putting a DVD from my video library onto my Dell 93' desktop. I've been distracted with many other things, and concurrently had only a couple of Dummy Audio episodes. The only thing in there is a dead link named nf mod date 21/05/25 that maybe is relevant? The link target is /run/pulseaudio-enable-autospawn and there's nothing named pulseaudio in the /run directory. The /etc/pulse/ directory has a mod date of 21/08/03 though the dead audio happened before that. All of these files have mod dates of 20/07/15 so maybe aren't involved. It looks like most stuff is set in the default.pa and system.pa files. In the /etc/pulse/ nf and nf files every line starts with a semicolon which I imagine is commenting it out, but in the case of the nf file this one line lacks the leading semicolon: The only thing I've tried is getting rid of timidity and its daemon, but neither seems to have been installed. I've read a number of fixes, but none seem related to audio that normally works but will randomly go Dummy. The only way I've found to get sound working again is reboot. When sound is working the only option there is When I then go to the Audio Indicator Applet in my Panel and click Sound Settings (aka Sound Preferences), the only option in the Output tab is Dummy Audio. Lately at seemingly random times, there's no audio. After rummaging the web for a while, I've yet to find anyone with this particular issue:Īudio (HDMI from Dell desktop PC to a surround stereo) worked great with Ubu-Mate for about a year.

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