[ale] DVD sound broken after patching CentOS 6.6

[Bob Toxen]

Hi All, my weakest Linux ability is multimedia.


After very recent patching of my CentOS 6.6 systems,
sound no longer works either from DVDs or CDs or videos from news sites
(Yahoo & Fox).

I suspect that it is a codec problem but I do know know how to repair.

The video from the above sources works fine but no audio.

Invoking "aplay" on a .wav file generates no sound or complaint.
Ditto for "speaker-test".

However, having mapped ^G to the sound of a bell in X, I get that sound
when I output a ^G to an Xterm screen.


I've tried using yum and rpm to remove and reinstall the usual suspects:
  
yum remove kaffeine
yum remove flash-plugin mplayerplug-in mplayer mplayer-gui gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly
yum remove compat-libstdc++-33 libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav lsdvd libquicktime
rpm -ve mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm
rpm -ve mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1
rpm -ve mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386
rpm -ve mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386

yum install libdvdcss.x86_64
wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

yum install libdvdcss.x86_64
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

No luck.

Please advise.

THANKS,

Bob Toxen
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