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xy9

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Registered: 2026-02-24

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Video playback and Audio not working

Videos on any browser is loading forever and audio is not working. Help pls (new at linux)

xy9

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Registered: 2026-02-24

Posts: 2

Re: Video playback and Audio not working

pipewire is installed btw

5hridhyan

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From: Asia

Registered: 2025-12-25

Posts: 525

Re: Video playback and Audio not working

Welcome.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 95#p440695
If videos are buffering indefinitely, it's usually because the browser can't initialize the audio backend, Pipewire alone isn't enough; you need the session manager and the PulseAudio compatibility layer.
check if the services are actually running?
If that doesn't fix it, post the output of "wpctl status" and let us know if you've installed https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … -pipewire/ and the necessary codecs (like https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gst-libav/ etc).

Edit
https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode please wrap the outputs in BBCodes...

Last edited by 5hridhyan (2026-02-24 14:23:23)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: Video playback and Audio not working

None of the standard browsers one usually runs use gstreamer, so those are likely not relevant. Much more likely a conflict between pipewire and pulseaudio

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
systemctl --user status pipewire{,-pulse} wireplumber pulseaudio

if any of these outputs contain pulseaudio and pipewire/wireplumber at the same time you have a conflict and will want to install pipewire-pulse