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myraowo

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[SOLVED]Game sound and most browser videos can't play at the same time

The game in question is Space Station 14, if launched by itself the sound plays normally but most videos (from YouTube, Discord, etc...) cannot even start. However if I start the video first and then the game after, it won't have any sound but all videos can play normally.

Last edited by myraowo (2023-07-07 12:45:41)

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Re: [SOLVED]Game sound and most browser videos can't play at the same time

pipewire+bluetooth? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … ssues/3316

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uname == latest pf-kernel

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]Game sound and most browser videos can't play at the same time

Check/post the output of

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
pacman -Qs 'pulse|pipewire'

during reproduction of the problematic situation.

myraowo

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Re: [SOLVED]Game sound and most browser videos can't play at the same time

pipewire+bluetooth? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … ssues/3316

That used to happen when I used bluetooth headphones, but instead of the audio cutting no audio would play at all until i closed one of the programs that were playing sound, so I switched back to wired headphones.

Check/post the output of

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
pacman -Qs 'pulse|pipewire'

during reproduction of the problematic situation.

While the game is playing sound and the video can't play:

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  oldyezero   1333 F.... pipewire-media-
                     oldyezero   1395 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC1:  oldyezero   1327 F.... pipewire
                     oldyezero   1333 F.... pipewire-media-
                     oldyezero   1395 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/pcmC1D0p:   oldyezero   1327 F...m pipewire
/dev/snd/seq:        oldyezero   1327 F.... pipewire

pacman -Qs 'pulse|pipewire'

local/gst-plugin-pipewire 1:0.3.72-1
    Multimedia graph framework - pipewire plugin
local/gtk-vnc 1.3.1-1
    VNC viewer widget for GTK
local/kpipewire 5.27.6-1 (plasma)
    Components relating to pipewire use in Plasma
local/lib32-libcanberra 1:0.30+r2+gc0620e4-2
    A small and lightweight implementation of the XDG Sound Theme Specification (32-bit)
local/lib32-libpulse 16.1-6
    A featureful, general-purpose sound server (32-bit client libraries)
local/libcanberra 1:0.30+r2+gc0620e4-3
    A small and lightweight implementation of the XDG Sound Theme Specification
local/libpipewire 1:0.3.72-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - client library
local/libpulse 16.1-6
    A featureful, general-purpose sound server (client library)
local/libwireplumber 0.4.14-1
    Session / policy manager implementation for PipeWire - client library
local/paprefs 1.2-1
    Configuration dialog for PulseAudio
local/pavucontrol 1:5.0+r64+geba9ca6-1
    PulseAudio Volume Control
local/pipewire 1:0.3.72-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor
local/pipewire-audio 1:0.3.72-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - Audio support
local/pipewire-jack 1:0.3.72-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - JACK support
local/pipewire-media-session 1:0.4.2-2
    Legacy session manager for PipeWire (deprecated)
local/plasma-pa 5.27.6-1 (plasma)
    Plasma applet for audio volume management using PulseAudio
local/pulseaudio 16.1-6
    A featureful, general-purpose sound server
local/pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.7.1-2
    ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio
local/pulseaudio-qt 1.3-1
    Qt bindings for libpulse

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]Game sound and most browser videos can't play at the same time

You're having a weird mix of implementations here. If you do not want to use pipewire for audio, get rid of gst-plugin-pipewire,  pipewire-audio and pipewire-jack. If you want to use pipewire for audio, replace pipewire-media-session with wireplumber and pulseaudio with pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio-alsa with pipewire-alsa

myraowo

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Re: [SOLVED]Game sound and most browser videos can't play at the same time

You're having a weird mix of implementations here. If you do not want to use pipewire for audio, get rid of gst-plugin-pipewire,  pipewire-audio and pipewire-jack. If you want to use pipewire for audio, replace pipewire-media-session with wireplumber and pulseaudio with pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio-alsa with pipewire-alsa

How would I go on removing those if it breaks dependencies on some programs?

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]Game sound and most browser videos can't play at the same time

Which of the approaches do you want to take?

#The former
pacman -S jack #should replace pipewire-jack
pacman -Rns gst-plugin-pipewire pipewire-audio
#The latter
pacman -R pulseaudio-alsa
pacman -S wireplumber pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa #Should logically replace the relevant components while still fullfilling dependency contracts

if i'm wrong with any of these you can also take out the broadsword and explicitly -Rdd relevant components and manually replace them appropriately

myraowo

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Re: [SOLVED]Game sound and most browser videos can't play at the same time

Which of the approaches do you want to take?

#The former
pacman -S jack #should replace pipewire-jack
pacman -Rns gst-plugin-pipewire pipewire-audio
#The latter
pacman -R pulseaudio-alsa
pacman -S wireplumber pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa #Should logically replace the relevant components while still fullfilling dependency contracts

if i'm wrong with any of these you can also take out the broadsword and explicitly -Rdd relevant components and manually replace them appropriately

Yeah the first one fixed it I just had to -Rdd, thank you.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]Game sound and most browser videos can't play at the same time

One thing of special note here is that gst-plugin-pipewire is a hard requirement of GNOME's internal screencasting stack so that might break -- other than that ther shouldn't be anything that strictly needs that.

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