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Finn10111

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Registered: 2011-10-05

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] No sound until I restart pipewire and wireplumber

Hi,

since maybe a few weeks I have a strange issue with playing sounds or YouTube videos.

If I open a YouTube video (or any other web played video) it just keeps loading and doesn't start to play. When I want to watch a locally saved video with for example VLC it does not have any sounds. No sound is working at all (notification sounds etc). After some googling I found a hint which said I should restart pipewire and wireplumber like this:

systemctl --user restart pipewire wireplumber

After restarting the services YouTube videos start to plan instant and I can hear all sounds, even I can hear previous notifications which seemed to be queued.

Last edited by Finn10111 (2025-04-13 11:56:17)

Xephon

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Registered: 2024-12-22

Posts: 189

Re: [SOLVED] No sound until I restart pipewire and wireplumber

Post output of

pacman -Q | grep -E 'pipe|pulse'

Finn10111

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Registered: 2011-10-05

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] No sound until I restart pipewire and wireplumber

Oh, missed your reply.. thanks!

This is the output:

# pacman -Q | grep -E 'pipe|pulse'
gst-plugin-pipewire 1:1.4.1-1
libpipeline 1.5.8-1
libpipewire 1:1.4.1-1
libpulse 17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1
pipewire 1:1.4.1-1
pipewire-audio 1:1.4.1-1
pulseaudio 17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1
pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.12-4
pulseaudio-bluetooth 17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1
python-pulsectl 1:24.12.0-1
qemu-audio-pipewire 9.2.2-1

Xephon

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Registered: 2024-12-22

Posts: 189

Re: [SOLVED] No sound until I restart pipewire and wireplumber

Remove pulseaudio, install pipewire-pulse instead

Finn10111

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Registered: 2011-10-05

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] No sound until I restart pipewire and wireplumber

It worked, thank you a lot!