Arch Linux

damnbug

Member

Registered: 2012-09-18

Posts: 88

[SOLVED] Noise in mpv, audacious, etc. with pipewire

After switching from pulseaudio to pipewire, I noticed a static-like noise when playing video or music via HDMI in mpv, audacious etc., even when there's no audio coming from a file. The noise is gone when the video/audio player is closed.

I tried to disable audio device suspend with "snd-hda-intel power_save=0" but it didn't remove the noise.

I don't hear any static with the following pulseaudio file (~/.config/pulse/default.pa) and without "snd-hda-intel power_save=0":

.include /etc/pulse/default.pa
.nofail
unload-module module-suspend-on-idle
.fail

Any tip?

Last edited by damnbug (2022-06-16 18:30:41)

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,300

Re: [SOLVED] Noise in mpv, audacious, etc. with pipewire

Depends on whether you use wireplumber or pipewire-media-session. If the former follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/WirePl … figuration for how to manipulate configs in general, you will need to adjust the ["session.suspend-timeout-seconds"] = 5 property of the device in question: https://pipewire.pages.freedesktop.org/ … properties

On pipewire-media-session you can do similar: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWi … g_playback (... in fact that link seems to explain it for wireplumber as well)

damnbug

Member

Registered: 2012-09-18

Posts: 88

Re: [SOLVED] Noise in mpv, audacious, etc. with pipewire

The noise via HDMI seems to be gone with that config you suggested and without "snd-hda-intel power_save=0". Thank you. Now I'm trying to get rid of crackling noses in Firefox.