[solved] youtube videos stopped playing in all browsers

shoelesshunter · 2022-06-02 21:01:04

not sure if this is an Arch issue or not.

I use Brave browser. recently, Youtube stopped all playback. videos load, they buffer, but they don't start. I can click forward on the playback bar, and it skips to new images, but they don't play.

it's not network related; they play on other devices.

this happens in Firefox and Google Chrome too.

local media plays fine with mpv.

the only other changed I've made was to install and enable profile sync daemon for using tmpfs for browser profiles. the issue seemed to start at that time, but stopping and disabling the service, then a reboot does not solve it.

any suggestions?

Last edited by shoelesshunter (2022-06-04 04:17:18)

Slithery · 2022-06-02 21:11:14

When did you last update your system?
There was a misconfigured pipewire update last month that caused several issues which sound like your problem...
https://archlinux.org/news/undone-repla … replumber/

shoelesshunter · 2022-06-04 04:17:03

thank you. doing

pacman -Syu pipewire-media-session

as indicated in that link restored youtube for me.

thealen081 · 2022-07-03 06:59:49

I was using pipewire at the time this broke my audio. Possibly due to bad setup on my end I fixed it by doing:

pacman -Syu pipewire-alsa pipewire-jack pipewire-pulse

Pipewire-pulse did replace pulseaudio which is strange. I followed the documentation when switching from alsa, must be something I've missed.

alindchis · 2024-07-01 07:05:44

pacman -Syu pipewire-media-session

This worked for me. Using EndeavourOS (Arch), YouTube broke on both Firefox and Brave, with my last system update.

seth · 2024-07-01 08:13:31

Please don't necrobump to promote what has now become bad advice, even though you're not using arch.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#WirePlumber
You probably had a stale wireplumber config => remove that.

xii69 · 2024-08-20 20:50:59

seth wrote:

Please don't necrobump to promote what has now become bad advice, even though you're not using arch.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#WirePlumber
You probably had a stale wireplumber config => remove that.

what exactly should i delete?

seth · 2024-08-20 20:57:33

~/.local/state/wireplumber, possibly ~/.config/wireplumber

xii69 · 2024-08-20 21:03:18

seth wrote:

~/.local/state/wireplumber, possibly ~/.config/wireplumber

removed ~/.local/state/wireplumber/ and rebooted, still i can't play any video on youtube, ~/.config/wireplumber doesn't exist

Last edited by xii69 (2024-08-20 21:06:24)

seth · 2024-08-20 21:12:28

Open a new thread, post your complete system journal there.

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

And also be more elaborative on the situation, notably what browser and what "can't play any video" actually means and whether you can

mpv 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM' # requires yt-dlp

xii69 · 2024-08-20 21:23:20

seth wrote:

Open a new thread, post your complete system journal there.
sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st
And also be more elaborative on the situation, notably what browser and what "can't play any video" actually means and whether you can
mpv 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM' # requires yt-dlp

i did, also about that yt-dlp, i can't get access to youtube directly duo to internet limitations, i've to use my browser
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=298703

seth · 2024-08-20 21:25:45

i can't get access to youtube directly duo to internet limitations

GeckoMaster · 2025-02-06 09:15:35

Solved for me;

sudo pacman -S pipewire --overwrite '*'
sudo pacman -S wireplumber --overwrite '*'

systemctl --user stop pipewire
systemctl --user start pipewire

systemctl --user stop wireplumber
systemctl --user start wireplumber

reboot.

If persist try to stop disable enable and start the services.

Also you might want to remove ~/.local/state/wireplumber.

Cheers!!!

Last edited by GeckoMaster (2025-02-06 09:23:06)

Lone_Wolf · 2025-02-06 10:19:08

Don't use --overwrite '*' UNLESS arch devs recommend it.

Also read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … bumping%22

Closing this thread.

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