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nebula42

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Registered: 2023-03-01

Posts: 1

Firefox can't play a video if it has sound.

So when I try to play a video with sound, local or on youtube, it refuses to play unless I mute the the audio.
My best guess is that it has something to do with pipewire and pulseaudio, since I recently installed kde.
local media plays just fine though.

Here's journalctl -b logs:
https://gist.github.com/nulla-git/37401 … 1ecabff370

lmk what other logs you might need.

Last edited by nebula42 (2023-03-01 18:11:11)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,255

Re: Firefox can't play a video if it has sound.

Your audio device is being blocked by something. Your journal also reveals why. You are mixing wireplumber and pulseaudio which will conflict with each other.

Either replace wireplumber with pipewire-media-session if you want to stick to pulseaudio, or switch to pipewire entirely by replacing pulseaudio with pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio-alsa with pipewire-alsa and remaining on wireplumber.

Side note while checking for some common stuff in the journal which isn't responsible for your current issue but will certainly run you into trouble eventually: You have at least 3 different network management tools enabled, you should only have one. If you intend to use plasma network integration the only service that should be enabled should be NetworkManager, disable dhcpcd and iwd.

Last edited by V1del (2023-03-01 18:17:41)