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ameyngangal

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From: India

Registered: 2023-03-02

Posts: 6

[No Audio Playback] Brave Browser - YouTube

Hello everyone,
I require help with an issue while playing YouTube videos.
I'm running a Wayland session using Hyprland as my WM

On Brave Browser (binary from AUR), there's no audio playback

Additional information -
Using Pipewire + Wireplumber (along with it's other plugins)
All the configurations are at their default values, I've not made any changes

$ pacman -Qq | grep -iE 'pipe|wire|pulse|alsa'
alsa-card-profiles
alsa-lib
alsa-topology-conf
alsa-ucm-conf
alsa-utils
gst-plugin-pipewire
lib32-alsa-lib
lib32-libpipewire
lib32-pipewire
lib32-pipewire-jack
libpipeline
libpipewire
libpulse
libwireplumber
pipewire
pipewire-alsa
pipewire-audio
pipewire-docs
pipewire-jack
pipewire-pulse
pipewire-v4l2
wireplumber

While video is paused

$ wpctl status
PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [0.3.80, ameyng@home-nix, cookie:2122816728]
 └─ Clients:
        31. WirePlumber                         [0.3.80, ameyng@home-nix, pid:23497]
        32. WirePlumber [export]                [0.3.80, ameyng@home-nix, pid:23497]
        55. Brave input                         [0.3.80, ameyng@home-nix, pid:23566]
        56. mpv                                 [0.3.80, ameyng@home-nix, pid:25185]
        68. wpctl                               [0.3.80, ameyng@home-nix, pid:26635]

Audio
 ├─ Devices:
 │      48. Built-in Audio                      [alsa]
 │      49. HDA NVidia                          [alsa]
 │
 ├─ Sinks:
 │  *   51. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo        [vol: 0.60]
 │
 ├─ Sink endpoints:
 │
 ├─ Sources:
 │  *   53. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo        [vol: 1.00]
 │
 ├─ Source endpoints:
 │
 └─ Streams:
        57. mpv
             60. output_FR       > ALC285 Analog:playback_FR    [init]
             61. output_FL       > ALC285 Analog:playback_FL    [init]

Video
 ├─ Devices:
 │      40. USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam: USB2.0 HD     [libcamera]
 │      50. USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam                [v4l2]
 │      52. USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam                [v4l2]
 │
 ├─ Sinks:
 │
 ├─ Sink endpoints:
 │
 ├─ Sources:
 │      45. USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam  USB2.0 HD
 │  *   47. USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam (V4L2)
 │
 ├─ Source endpoints:
 │
 └─ Streams:

Settings
 └─ Default Configured Node Names:

While video is playing

$ wpctl status
PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [0.3.80, ameyng@home-nix, cookie:2122816728]
 └─ Clients:
        31. WirePlumber                         [0.3.80, ameyng@home-nix, pid:23497]
        32. WirePlumber [export]                [0.3.80, ameyng@home-nix, pid:23497]
        55. Brave input                         [0.3.80, ameyng@home-nix, pid:23566]
        56. mpv                                 [0.3.80, ameyng@home-nix, pid:25185]
        62. wpctl                               [0.3.80, ameyng@home-nix, pid:26748]
        68. Brave                               [0.3.80, ameyng@home-nix, pid:23566]

Audio
 ├─ Devices:
 │      48. Built-in Audio                      [alsa]
 │      49. HDA NVidia                          [alsa]
 │
 ├─ Sinks:
 │  *   51. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo        [vol: 0.60]
 │
 ├─ Sink endpoints:
 │
 ├─ Sources:
 │  *   53. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo        [vol: 1.00]
 │
 ├─ Source endpoints:
 │
 └─ Streams:
        57. mpv
             60. output_FR       > ALC285 Analog:playback_FR    [init]
             61. output_FL       > ALC285 Analog:playback_FL    [init]
        69. Brave
             71. output_FL       > ALC285 Analog:playback_FL    [active]
             73. output_FR       > ALC285 Analog:playback_FR    [active]

Video
 ├─ Devices:
 │      40. USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam: USB2.0 HD     [libcamera]
 │      50. USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam                [v4l2]
 │      52. USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam                [v4l2]
 │
 ├─ Sinks:
 │
 ├─ Sink endpoints:
 │
 ├─ Sources:
 │      45. USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam  USB2.0 HD
 │  *   47. USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam (V4L2)
 │
 ├─ Source endpoints:
 │
 └─ Streams:

Settings
 └─ Default Configured Node Names:

Note, I am testing this using a basic pair of earphones connected to my laptop's 3.5mm jack

mpv can play the video flawlessly, but Brave Browser cannot

Also, if I use the speaker-test utility and run

speaker-test -c 2

The test audio plays perfectly through both the left and right sides of the earphone

Additionally, all services for pipewire and wireplumber are running normally

$ systemctl --user list-units --no-pager | grep -iE 'wire|pulse|alsa|pipe'
pipewire-pulse.service                                                                                          loaded active running   PipeWire PulseAudio
  pipewire.service                                                                                                loaded active running   PipeWire Multimedia Service
  wireplumber.service                                                                                             loaded active running   Multimedia Service Session Manager
  pipewire-pulse.socket                                                                                           loaded active running   PipeWire PulseAudio
  pipewire.socket                                                                                                 loaded active running   PipeWire Multimedia System Socket

Lastly, all packages on my system are up-to-date

tdtooke

Member

Registered: 2023-04-11

Posts: 245

Re: [No Audio Playback] Brave Browser - YouTube

This probably won't help you but just in case.  Occasionally I have this problem come up with firefox and it's always because the app itself is muted.  I use kde and just use the audio icon in the system tray to unmute muted apps.

ameyngangal

Member

From: India

Registered: 2023-03-02

Posts: 6

Re: [No Audio Playback] Brave Browser - YouTube

This probably won't help you but just in case.  Occasionally I have this problem come up with firefox and it's always because the app itself is muted.  I use kde and just use the audio icon in the system tray to unmute muted apps.

Nope mate,
Thank you for your suggestion, but I also checked this already. The browser itself is unmuted.

Can you give me any other suggestions/ideas?

tdtooke

Member

Registered: 2023-04-11

Posts: 245

Re: [No Audio Playback] Brave Browser - YouTube

Sorry.  I suspect pulseaudio is involved in this but you need somebody that knows more than me.

linusvanpelt

Member

From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2017-04-12

Posts: 13

Re: [No Audio Playback] Brave Browser - YouTube

I found this forum post while searching for the solution to the same issue. 
It's three years later, but I'm posting this in case anyone else gets a hit on this issue in the future.
cachyos (so arch derivative), Wayland, KDE Plasma, Brave browser, YouTube video loses audio.
While still on that YT webpage, RMB the icon in the taskbar.  If you see a Mute choice and it is ticked, untick it.  That KDE menu choice appears to mute audio for the entire browser, even if YT still shows unmuted, the audio applet registers sound, it works in Firefox, etc.  (BTW Firefox has the same RMB Mute selector).

WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 13,686

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Re: [No Audio Playback] Brave Browser - YouTube

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues and closing this old thread.

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