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adsumillia

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Registered: 2025-06-27

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[SOLVED] Pipewire and pulseaudio causing video playback issues

Hello All. I installed pipewire originally, then somewhere along i goofed up and installed pulseaudio, the main issue is applications like firefox and discord will not play videos, instead they will buffer and load endlessly.  i have several applications like rustdesk and firefox that require libpulse. I am not sure how to proceed.
Here is the output of "sudo pacman -Qs 'pipewire|pulse'" :

 local/gst-plugin-pipewire 1:1.4.5-1
    Multimedia graph framework - pipewire plugin
local/gtk-vnc 1.5.0-1
    VNC viewer widget for GTK
local/lib32-libpipewire 1:1.4.5-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - 32-bit - client library
local/lib32-pipewire 1:1.4.5-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - 32-bit
local/libcanberra 1:0.30+r2+gc0620e4-4
    A small and lightweight implementation of the XDG Sound Theme Specification
local/libpipewire 1:1.4.5-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - client library
local/libpulse 17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1
    A featureful, general-purpose sound server (client library)
local/libwireplumber 0.5.10-1
    Session / policy manager implementation for PipeWire - client library
local/pamixer 1.6-3
    Pulseaudio command-line mixer like amixer
local/pavucontrol-gtk3 1:5.0-1
    PulseAudio Volume Control 5.0 (last GTK3 release)
local/pipewire 1:1.4.5-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor
local/pipewire-audio 1:1.4.5-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - Audio support
local/pipewire-jack 1:1.4.5-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - JACK replacement
local/pulseaudio 17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1
    A featureful, general-purpose sound server
local/pulseaudio-bluetooth 17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1
    Bluetooth support for PulseAudio
local/pwvucontrol 0.4.9-1
    Pipewire volume control for GNOME
local/wireplumber 0.5.10-1
    Session / policy manager implementation for PipeWire 

EDIT:
Removing pulseaudio-bluetooth and installing pipewire-pulse fixed this issue.

Last edited by adsumillia (2025-06-28 23:29:27)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,156

Re: [SOLVED] Pipewire and pulseaudio causing video playback issues

You don't want to mix wireplumber and pulseaudio, they will logically conflict. Just install pipewire-pulse and say yes to all replacements.

adsumillia

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Registered: 2025-06-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Pipewire and pulseaudio causing video playback issues

You don't want to mix wireplumber and pulseaudio, they will logically conflict. Just install pipewire-pulse and say yes to all replacements.

When I attempt to run "sudo pacman -S pipewire-pulse", and agreeing to the removal of pulseaudio I get:

 error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1' required by pulseaudio-bluetooth 

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,156

Re: [SOLVED] Pipewire and pulseaudio causing video playback issues

then remove pulseaudio-bluetooth beforehand, it shouldn't be required by anything else.