Video doesn't play until I restart wireplumber. [SOLVED]

spicemonke · 2024-10-20 11:02:40

Video just keeps buffering on youtube until i restart wireplumber. I'll have to do this for every other video.
I've tried updating but that didn't fix it. I use KDE plasma, this has been happening since i tried to remove some of the applications plasma comes with.
Any suggestions?

Last edited by spicemonke (2024-10-20 11:22:44)

spicemonke · 2024-10-20 11:22:01

i just uninstalled wireplumber and installed pipewire-session-manager. everything works fine now.

seth · 2024-12-28 08:47:57

I'll just abuse this thread to respond to your DM.
First off all, please don't do this. You can ask open questions like this in the GNU/Linux board what not only will get you more responses but also benefit other, future readers.

The question "How do you get good at 'linux'" comes up a lot but cannot be answered beyond Hundred Eyes explanation of Kung Fu (google it) because the question typically doesn't concern the kernel itself but a wider knowledge/understanding of the system. People then ask "what book do I have to memorize to know things", but that is not how you gain understanding of a complex system - you're basically just following one path through the jungle, you don't end up understanding the jungle.

My best advice would be not to try to learn the system, but to break it, resp. its seemingly preset rules.
You'll typically start out with a preconfigured system and a preselection of tools in a desktop environment.

The question you need to ask next is "Ok, but how do I do/get <thing I care about>" where "<thing I care about>" is the most important part, because it gives you what no teacher can: motivation.
Whether it's something you don't have but want or something that you have but that bothers you or something you're just curious about.

Then you take to your favorite search engine and start to research the topic. Chances are, somebody else wanted that, too.
Do NOT! ask anything like ChatGPT. I cannot stress that enough.
Leaving aside that the AI will more often tell you nonsense, the approach only teaches you how to not learn things by feeding you some other, narrow path through the jungle.

But you want to stray aside!

You'll find different takes on the problem, some will lead to immediate success. Which is nice, albeit not very educative.
But some will cause you to break things you then have to repair and others will just lead you to the next question: "Ok, I thing to get X I need to do Y - but how do I do Y?".
Both will cause you to do more research, find more information and over time you get better at cross-examining that and filter the noise from the signal (and more often than never the realization that, "No, actually Y wasn't the solution to X at all, but I learned a lot about Y to figure that"

And one day you'll face a question and think, "Hold on, I saw that in this seemingly unrelated comment!" and be able to asnwer it en passant.
Now you know how to get through the jungle - and things from it.

spicemonke · 2024-12-28 16:45:18

Thank you for your response. I think I know what to do now.

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#1 2024-10-20 11:02:40

Video doesn't play until I restart wireplumber. [SOLVED]

#2 2024-10-20 11:22:01

Re: Video doesn't play until I restart wireplumber. [SOLVED]

#3 2024-12-28 08:47:57

Re: Video doesn't play until I restart wireplumber. [SOLVED]

#4 2024-12-28 16:45:18

Re: Video doesn't play until I restart wireplumber. [SOLVED]

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