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rodapa2720@tashjw.com

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Registered: 2020-06-05

Posts: 7

[solved] videos / sound randomly stops playing on Arch

Hello,

At first I thought it was a browser issue since videos on YouTube / Vimeo randomly stopped playing on both chrome / ff.
turns out it's a larger system issue since I cannot play local mp3 files & mp4 files do open but have no sound.

Things I've tried to fix it:
log off.
update arch to latest.
update browsers  to latest.
update to stable / unstable Nvidia drivers for 1050TI

Only workaround is a system reboot.

SOLVED
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turned out pulseaudio was suspending the sink.
to test if thats your case - pactl list sinks
if - State: SUSPENDED

edit
sudo nano /etc/pulse/default.pa

comment out this option
### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long
#load-module module-suspend-on-idle

then
killall pulseaudio

Rod

Last edited by rodapa2720@tashjw.com (2022-02-27 02:19:05)