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fhuddles

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From: San Antonio, Texas, USA

Registered: 2017-05-16

Posts: 9

Video Hangs in Firefox using HDMI as display, with pulseaudio errors

I'm using a TV as a display, so the interconnection is via HDMI.  Sometimes had no sound after a reboot, but following commands usually restored that:
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --set audio on
pacmd set-default-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_0e.0.hdmi-stereo
pulseaudio -k

However, recently (since a month or so ago), videos, mostly YouTube, played in Firefox just started hanging, with the circle indicating what looked like a wait on the network.
Then maybe some stuttering resumption, and maybe a return to the original material that had been playing at the beginning. Basically, video hung and audio as well, although
sometimes audio continued for a while.
This does not happen with the Chromium browser, and it's somewhat intermittent with Firefox as well: a week ago it worked, now it's a problem again.
It also does not happen with Firefox on my laptop.
Restarting pulseaudio via pulseaudio -k restarts video  but without audio, and even then: it hangs.
Only in Firefox (so far!), on an hdmi (TV) display.

In my journalctl and systemctl --user status pulseaudio I see:

 pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2024-07-24 16:33:09 CDT; 53min ago
 Invocation: c6d009197740436cb1205f507198145c
TriggeredBy: * pulseaudio.socket
   Main PID: 288965 (pulseaudio)
      Tasks: 9 (limit: 8998)
     Memory: 13.8M (peak: 14.4M)
        CPU: 7min 6.823s
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pulseaudio.service
             |-288965 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
             `-288993 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper

24 16:33:25 nemo pulseaudio[288965]: [alsa_output.pci-0000_00_0e.0.hdmi-stereo] Total latency of output is very high (18446744073709540.00ms), most likely the audio timing in one of your drivers is broken.
Jul 24 16:33:26 nemo pulseaudio[288965]: [alsa_output.pci-0000_00_0e.0.hdmi-stereo] Total latency of output is very high (18446744073709540.00ms), most likely the audio timing in one of your drivers is broken.
Jul 24 16:33:27 nemo pulseaudio[288965]: [alsa_output.pci-0000_00_0e.0.hdmi-stereo] Total latency of output is very high (18446744073709540.00ms), most likely the audio timing in one of your drivers is broken.
Jul 24 16:33:28 nemo pulseaudio[288965]: [alsa_output.pci-0000_00_0e.0.hdmi-stereo] Total latency of output is very high (18446744073709540.00ms), most likely the audio timing in one of your drivers is broken.
Jul 24 16:33:29 nemo pulseaudio[288965]: [alsa_output.pci-0000_00_0e.0.hdmi-stereo] Total latency of output is very high (18446744073709540.00ms), most likely the audio timing in one of your drivers is broken.
Jul 24 16:33:30 nemo pulseaudio[288965]: [alsa_output.pci-0000_00_0e.0.hdmi-stereo] Total latency of output is very high (18446744073709540.00ms), most likely the audio timing in one of your drivers is broken.
Jul 24 16:33:31 nemo pulseaudio[288965]: [alsa_output.pci-0000_00_0e.0.hdmi-stereo] Total latency of output is very high (18446744073709540.00ms), most likely the audio timing in one of your drivers is broken.
Jul 24 16:33:32 nemo pulseaudio[288965]: [alsa_output.pci-0000_00_0e.0.hdmi-stereo] Total latency of output is very high (18446744073709540.00ms), most likely the audio timing in one of your drivers is broken.
Jul 24 16:33:33 nemo pulseaudio[288965]: [alsa_output.pci-0000_00_0e.0.hdmi-stereo] Total latency of output is very high (18446744073709540.00ms), most likely the audio timing in one of your drivers is broken.
Jul 24 16:33:34 nemo pulseaudio[288965]: [alsa_output.pci-0000_00_0e.0.hdmi-stereo] Total latency of output is very high (18446744073709540.00ms), most likely the audio timing in one of your drivers is broken

So: what can you tell me? Or ask me?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,935

Re: Video Hangs in Firefox using HDMI as display, with pulseaudio errors

Sanity check:

pacman -Qs 'pulse|wire'

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