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yemmar

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Registered: 2024-11-05

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[Solved] No applications playing audio when using headphone output

Speaker audio works fine but switching to headphones plays no application audio (system sounds work fine)

As you can see, playing a video with speakers everything looks as expected...

But after changing to headphones and reloading the video, there are no more applications interacting with audio, and no sound is produced aside from system sounds.

here's the output of pactl info

Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 35
Server Protocol Version: 35
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 641
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: xx
Host Name: xx
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 1.2.6)
Server Version: 15.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo
Cookie: 4c08:8193

edit: pipewire-pulse shows this error in the systemctl log when i switch to headphones

Nov 04 21:44:48 archlinux pipewire-pulse[3584]: mod.protocol-pulse: client 0x62279d64d200 [Firefox]: ERROR command:-1 (invalid) tag:37 error:25 (Input/output error)

thank you so much for your help <3

Last edited by yemmar (2024-11-05 16:51:52)

yemmar

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Registered: 2024-11-05

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] No applications playing audio when using headphone output

After giving up and doing a clean reinstall of fedora, the issue persisted. I removed pipewire and replaced it with pulseaudio and that fixed the issue. Very strange considering that headphone audio was working fine a couple of days ago...