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shoelesshunter

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From: USA

Registered: 2014-05-18

Posts: 289

[solved] youtube videos stopped playing in all browsers

not sure if this is an Arch issue or not.

I use Brave browser. recently, Youtube stopped all playback. videos load, they buffer, but they don't start. I can click forward on the playback bar, and it skips to new images, but they don't play.

it's not network related; they play on other devices.

this happens in Firefox and Google Chrome too.

local media plays fine with mpv.

the only other changed I've made was to install and enable profile sync daemon for using tmpfs for browser profiles. the issue seemed to start at that time, but stopping and disabling the service, then a reboot does not solve it.

any suggestions?

Last edited by shoelesshunter (2022-06-04 04:17:18)

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: [solved] youtube videos stopped playing in all browsers

When did you last update your system?
There was a misconfigured pipewire update last month that caused several issues which sound like your problem...
https://archlinux.org/news/undone-repla … replumber/

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shoelesshunter

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From: USA

Registered: 2014-05-18

Posts: 289

Re: [solved] youtube videos stopped playing in all browsers

thank you. doing

pacman -Syu pipewire-media-session

as indicated in that link restored youtube for me.

thealen081

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Registered: 2020-11-25

Posts: 1

Re: [solved] youtube videos stopped playing in all browsers

I was using pipewire at the time this broke my audio. Possibly due to bad setup on my end I fixed it by doing:

pacman -Syu pipewire-alsa pipewire-jack pipewire-pulse

Pipewire-pulse did replace pulseaudio which is strange. I followed the documentation when switching from alsa, must be something I've missed.