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ikako

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Registered: 2023-03-20

Posts: 4

have to reinstall pulseaudio to start videos on youtube

hi guys, newbie here, i'm running hyprland on arch linux, recently i noticed that video playbacks arent starting (youtube for example, video is buffing so internet works but video isnt starting), i searched for solutions and i found that reinstalling pulseaudio resolves it, but i have to reinstall pulseaudio on every boot, i dont even know what info to post, if anyone could tell me what info to post i will supply  the information, any help would be much appreciated, thanks <3

Sherzock

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Registered: 2023-04-17

Posts: 1

Re: have to reinstall pulseaudio to start videos on youtube

I don't know if this will be of any help as I'm also a newbie using linux but I had the same issue as you and what I found out was that I had installed Pipewire at the same time as pulseaudio. Just by removing Pipewire it solved the problem for me. I would suggest to watch out for any package you might have installed that might create a conflict with pulseaudio.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,255

Re: have to reinstall pulseaudio to start videos on youtube

Usually a conflict between wireplumber and pulseaudio. If you intend to stick to pipewire for audio out, replace pulseaudio with pipewire-pulse or if you want to stick to pulseaudio for the audio support switch wireplumber with pipewire-media-session.