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AnaJulia

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Registered: 2024-06-22

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Can't play YouTube videos on Firefox

Solution i found: I was using PipeWire and for some reason it caused this problem and installing PulseAudio and configuring to use it instead fixed it.

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For some reason I can't play YouTube videos on Firefox (idk about other browsers), but other videos work fine and my Internet isn't that bad (12.4 MB/s. download speed).

Here are some information that I think is relevant:
Firefox 127.0.1 (latest from Pacman)
I have the latest packages.
Laptop is Lenovo Ideapad 3 15ITL6 with a Tiger Lake-LP GT2 GPU (integrated graphics, i think)
KDE Plasma desktop environment (only the package group "plasma", "konsole" and nothing more)
Clearing cookies and site data did not help fix the problem

Last edited by AnaJulia (2024-06-22 14:56:05)

kermit63

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Registered: 2018-07-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't play YouTube videos on Firefox

I'm no firefox expert (I use other browsers), but as a basic troubleshooting step, you should run firefox from the terminal, try playing a youtube video, then see if the terminal spits out any useful information.

... idk about other browsers ...

What's stopping you from trying other browsers? The more info you can provide, the easier it is for people to help you.

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AnaJulia

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Registered: 2024-06-22

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Can't play YouTube videos on Firefox

I found the problem, I was using PipeWire and for some reason it caused this and installing PulseAudio fixed it.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't play YouTube videos on Firefox

Fwwi, the usual reasons are that you've
- pipewire and pulseaudio
- not installed pipewire-pulse
- stale wireplumber configs in ~/.config/wireplumber/ (remove the directory, the config format was changed at some point…)
- pipewire-media-session instead of wireplumber

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