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CraigD

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Registered: 2019-11-18

Posts: 17

Trouble with audio/video after update[Solved]

I started having problems with no sound and videos that indicate loading but don't play after an update (sudo pacman -Syu) on 10/03/2023. This affects YouTube, strawberry music, other Firefox video such as Apple TV and Amazon video.

I discovered that running sudo pacman -S pipewire wireplumber pulseaudio will temporarily fix the problem. If I close and reopen the offending program the problem reoccurs.

journalctl has the following errors which I must confess I don't fully understand the significance/how to fix

craig@Arch ~/  $ journalctl -b |grep  error && journalctl -b |grep ERROR
Oct 07 15:50:18 Arch kernel: platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
Oct 07 15:50:24 Arch dotnet[563]: [1] Unexpected error in SAT>IP discovery(1): System.FormatException: An invalid IP address was specified.
Oct 07 15:50:24 Arch dotnet[563]: [1] Unexpected error in SAT>IP discovery: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (101): Network is unreachable
Oct 07 15:50:24 Arch dotnet[563]:    at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.UpdateStatusAfterSocketErrorAndThrowException(SocketError error, String callerName)
Oct 07 15:50:26 Arch ksmserver[703]: Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
Oct 07 15:50:28 Arch kwin_x11[704]: kwin_core: XCB error: 152 (BadDamage), sequence: 2743, resource id: 14680102, major code: 143 (DAMAGE), minor code: 3 (Subtract)
Oct 07 15:50:17 Arch urbackupclientbackend[406]: ERROR: Error joining ipv6 multicast group ff12::f894:d:dd00:ef91
Oct 07 15:50:27 Arch wireplumber[878]: [0:00:14.412871872] [878] ERROR IPAModule ipa_module.cpp:172 Symbol ipaModuleInfo not found
Oct 07 15:50:27 Arch wireplumber[878]: [0:00:14.412889884] [878] ERROR IPAModule ipa_module.cpp:292 v4l2-compat.so: IPA module has no valid info
Oct 07 15:50:29 Arch ksmserver[1000]: [GFX1-]: vaapitest: ERROR

Thanks,
Craig

Last edited by CraigD (2023-10-11 05:06:35)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,564

Re: Trouble with audio/video after update[Solved]

You shouldn't use pulseaudio with wireplumber. Install pipewire-pulse if you want to fully switch to pipewire or remove wireplumber in lieu of pipewire-media-session if you want to use pulseaudio still.

CraigD

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Registered: 2019-11-18

Posts: 17

Re: Trouble with audio/video after update[Solved]

Thanks,

I removed pulseaudio and installed pipewire-pulse and it all seems to be working correctly.

Craig

triccsr

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Registered: 2023-10-08

Posts: 6

Re: Trouble with audio/video after update[Solved]

Work for me, too. Thanks.

V1del

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Re: Trouble with audio/video after update[Solved]

Please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in the first post to let others know the problem got resolved.