No Sound in Video Player (MPV) about ani-cli

[AurorinhaBoreal]

Just want to thanks @Nannk and @port19x for the help!

Gonna close this Issue! Have a good weekend you two! <3

[port19x]

sound should work indeed, this is strange.
Can you try playing a youtube video with mpv for testing?

[AurorinhaBoreal]

Okkay, I could't find how to make a link work in mpv, but I play a file instead and the problem is the mpv, the file didn't have audio too.

I was searching how to play links in mpv and I didn't found a file called mpv.conf, apparently the audio config is in this file?

Sorry for any grammar mistakes, do you know about this? Maybe I should search for any error in the mpv community...

[Nannk]

Sorry for the question, but does you audio work at all? (for example when you play a youtube video in a browser)

Go to your sound settings while mpv is playing and check what sources(playback in pavucontrol) you have. Mpv should be in there. Check that it is not muted and is assiges to correct output device.

Another reason might be that something is outputting directly to alsa, which, from my experience, blocks everything else from making any sound.

[AurorinhaBoreal]

No, it doesn't apparently! I searched a little and found that maybe it is some problem with the mpv itself. I found some changes that you can do in your mpv.conf file, will test it later and post the resulsts here

[Nannk]

If your audio doesnt work at all then its most probably pulseaudio/alsa or pipewire/alsa problem.

[AurorinhaBoreal]

Yeah, I think it was exactly that!

I found out that for some reason, when I installed the mpv, the mpv.conf wasn't created.

So, I had to created manually.

1 - I installed the MPV through AUR
2 - Created the mpv.conf using nano ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf
3 - Pasted the following in the mpv.conf:

# ===== Audio =====
ao=alsa
audio-device=auto

Apparently just sets the audio for alsa as @Nannk mentioned and sets the output device for automatic>

After that it worked perfectly! Any files that I open with it, plays audio and the anime that I tested in ani-cli worked too!

It is really weird that this wasn't created automatically though...