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Lenry

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From: Szeged, Hungary

Registered: 2010-03-27

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[SOLVED] Can't play video in any browser

Hi,

Recently I can't stream anything from any source in any browser. The videos seam to buffer, I can jump to any frame (the frame itself appears correctly), but it doesn't play, just stands on that frame.
It's the same in Firefox and Chrome, the same in Plex or YouTube.
I don't see anything suspicious in dmesg or journalctl, and I'm out of ideas.

Lenovo T480, KDE, Wayland. Everything is up to date.

Last edited by Lenry (2025-03-16 13:23:49)

colorglass

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Registered: 2024-09-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't play video in any browser

If you installed both pulseaudio and pipewire, maybe you can install pipewire-pulse package to replace pulseaudio. I met the same problem this week and guess it's some bugs of pipewire.

Lenry

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From: Szeged, Hungary

Registered: 2010-03-27

Posts: 66

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't play video in any browser

wow, installing pipewire-pulse solved it!
thank you

chim20air

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Registered: 2025-03-26

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Can't play video in any browser

Hi, I have the same issues, but arch won´t let me remove pulseaudio

```
$ pacman -S pipewire-pulse
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: pipewire-pulse-1:1.4.1-1 and pulseaudio-17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1 are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1' required by pulseaudio-bluetooth

$ sudo pacman -R pipewire
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire' required by gnome-remote-desktop
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire=1:1.4.1-1' required by gst-plugin-pipewire
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire' required by mutter
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire=1:1.4.1-1' required by pipewire-audio
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire' required by telegram-desktop
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire' required by wireplumber
:: removing pipewire breaks dependency 'pipewire' required by xdg-desktop-portal

$ pacman -R pulseaudio
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulse-native-provider' required by gnome-settings-daemon
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1' required by pulseaudio-bluetooth
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulse-native-provider' required by rustdesk
```

So I am not sure how to proceed here

Last edited by chim20air (2025-03-26 16:56:32)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 70,373

Re: [SOLVED] Can't play video in any browser

remove pulseaudio-bluetooth, then intall pipewire-pulse (removing pulseaudio)

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jawadahmads

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Registered: 2025-09-29

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Can't play video in any browser

If any body have still issues.
Just restart pipewire =>
```
systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse     
systemctl --user restart wireplumber
```

batomijovic

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Registered: 2024-04-05

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Can't play video in any browser

Instaling pipewire-pulse solve it for me, thanks

WorMzy

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Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't play video in any browser

Mod note: Closing this old solved topic.

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