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freakcitizen

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Registered: 2023-11-11

Posts: 3

Linux Noob - Media Playback Issues after Arch, Gnome Install

I'm having trouble playing media on my freshly installed Arch, Gnome setup. Videos in on Youtube in Firefox, songs on Spotify in Firefox, mp4 in vscodium, wav in vscodium etc. are all working intermittently. Sometimes they media plays no problem sometimes not at all.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled ffmpeg and intel drivers a gazillion times, reinstalled pulseaudio, alsa changed config files in firefox, changed firefox settings but the problem persists.

Also, not sure if this is related but sometimes my audio input/output devices go undetected (sometimes they go undetected when media playback is working LOL)

Would really appreciate if a more experienced Linux user could help me out with this issue. Thank you!

Last edited by freakcitizen (2023-11-11 23:01:55)

c00ter

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From: Alaskan in Washington State

Registered: 2014-08-28

Posts: 421

Re: Linux Noob - Media Playback Issues after Arch, Gnome Install

1. How did you install Arch?
2. Do you have DRM enabled in Firefox's settings?
3. Please paste your journal output (/var/log/journal/) to a pastebin service and link it back to your reply.

Last edited by c00ter (2023-11-12 03:22:24)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,234

Re: Linux Noob - Media Playback Issues after Arch, Gnome Install

Most likely a wireplumber/pulseaudio conflict. If you want to use pulseaudio install pipewire-media-session instead of wireplumber, if you want to switch to pipewire, install wireplumber and pipewire-pulse instead.

If that isn't it, post

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
sudo journalctl -b