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Andy3153

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Registered: 2018-12-24

Posts: 89

[SOLV]After kwin's switch to wireplumber, no media playback is working

After the last update I did, which made kwin switch to wireplumber for its dependency for pipewire-session-manager, no media playback is working anymore. Not only music, even video, with video it doesn't even play the actual video, without audio, it just stays stuck on a frame.

Now, the reason this kinda annoys me is that I don't even use Wayland, or PipeWire. I use Plasma on Xorg, with PulseAudio, not even pipewire-pulse. The only reason Pipewire is even installed on my system is likely because it got pulled as a dependency for some other program I have installed.

Why is this even affecting me in this situation?

Last edited by Andy3153 (2022-05-11 21:27:50)

Strider

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 110

Re: [SOLV]After kwin's switch to wireplumber, no media playback is working

I concur what Andy3153 says : I'm in exactly the same situation. No video (just a frame is shown) and no audio from Firefox or Chromium in KDE.
Any suggestion for solution ?

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLV]After kwin's switch to wireplumber, no media playback is working

You need to either go back to pipewire-media-session instead of wireplumber, or to complete pipewire with pipewire-pulse (and probably -alsa, and maybe -jack).

Strider

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 110

Re: [SOLV]After kwin's switch to wireplumber, no media playback is working

Scimmia,
I found the solution in another post :
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p2035364

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLV]After kwin's switch to wireplumber, no media playback is working

That is not a great option. Could easily cause issues later on as audio things evolve. You also then have no session manager for pipewire, so you'll likely have issues using the video part of it as well.

Last edited by Scimmia (2022-05-11 20:08:04)

Andy3153

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Registered: 2018-12-24

Posts: 89

Re: [SOLV]After kwin's switch to wireplumber, no media playback is working

Thanks, I installed pipewire-media-session, and it began working again. I'm still not going to make the switch yet, I had it forcefully happen to me on accident when PulseEffects began hard-depending on pipewire-pulse, and there were problems everywhere. Things like virtual audio sources that didn't do anything, not switching on inserting headphones in the audio jack and many others. To say the least, I'll try the all-new stuff like Wayland and Pipewire either after around 1-2 years to just give them even more time to develop, and on a clean install, or whenever I get a secondary computer. But for now, Pulseaudio it is.