running gstreamer-properties and setting the devices to autodetect did not help in my case. what did help was to delete the file ~/.pulse-cooke and the directory ./~pulse.
after all it seems this problem was pulse related. (rhythmbox stopped working, so i really had to fix this bug. and totem works now too!) -- Volume control and sound missing from Totem. All other video/music players work fine. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367718 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs