The other day I installed Davinci Resolve from the AUR. I converted my video files to support the free version in Linux. Earlier I installed Davinci Resolve in Ubuntu using the MakeResolveDeb script. After converting the videos it worked perfectly in Ubuntu. But to my surprise, in Arch, the Audio didn’t work!
First I thought I didn’t convert the files correctly. I retried several different formats but none of them worked. Even straight-up audio files in supported formats didn’t work. I tried various Davinci Resolve related solutions but none of them worked! Then I started researching Arch-specific issues and indeed there was a package missing!
The Solution:
All I had to do was to install the package pulseaudio-alsa. I installed it using Pamac but you can also install it using the terminal using:
sudo pacman -S pulseaudio-alsa
Interestingly enough, I was actually running pipeware instead of pulseaudio. There is also a package called pipeware-alsa but installing them didn’t work. Weird huh?