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pinkyplant

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2024-05-03

Posts: 9

No sound or video playback (in firefox), not sure how to troubleshoot.

I'm on wayland hyprland, and for some reason my sound doesn't work? And youtube won't play any videos, they just hang on loading.

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jay

seth

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From: Won't reply 2 private help req

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,828

Re: No sound or video playback (in firefox), not sure how to troubleshoot.

Probably pipewire or pulseaudio related.
For a sanity check please post the output of

find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f

Can you "mpv -ao alsa thunderstruck.mp3"?

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,209

Re: No sound or video playback (in firefox), not sure how to troubleshoot.

Also

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
aplay -lL

lifiumBTW

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From: Badda, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Registered: 2024-01-24

Posts: 6

Re: No sound or video playback (in firefox), not sure how to troubleshoot.

Check if the pipewire or pulseaudio systemd services are enabled. If it throws an error, maybe check the output of

 find /etc/systemd | grep pipewire 

or

 find /etc/systemd | grep pulse 

if you use pulseaudio instead of pipewire in order to check if they are present in the system. if not present, then maybe reinstall either of them.

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