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janenolastname

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Video works when the audio is muted, but does not when audio is playin

Hello,

I've been trying to fix my audio for quite a bit on myself. A few days ago i reinstalled arch to try hyprland and for the first day the audio worked and the day after that the audio just stopped working. 

I don't even know what caused this. i tired restarting it and i just gave me this errror

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systemctl restart pipewire

Failed to restart pipewire.service: Unit pipewire.service not found.

Nikolai5

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From: North West, England, UK

Registered: 2024-01-27

Posts: 290

Re: Video works when the audio is muted, but does not when audio is playin

Audio stuff tends to run at user level so to restart it you would run:

systemctl --user restart pipewire

What packages did you install for audio, what do you mean by video working or not working?
Do you mean that the video pauses as if an audio source change occurred?

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,431

Re: Video works when the audio is muted, but does not when audio is playin

A common mistake here is to have pulseaudio and wireplumber running at the same time, both trying to access the audio device in incompatible ways. Install pipewire-pulse make sure to say yes to a potential replacement prompt. In doubt post

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

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