No Youtube sound from Firefox after recent update

General system Gaming, sound and video
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The most recent update included Wireplumber, and after that the video sound from Youtube using Firefox stopped working for me (other sound sources are OK). Suspect it’s Wireplumber as I know it’s caused innumerable problems with Manjaro as well. The only way I’ve found to fix it so far is to replace with pipewire-media-session.

Just a heads-up for others having problems.

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Yeah that was major temporary f**kup…

https://archlinux.org/news/undone-replacement-of-pipewire-media-session-with-wireplumber/

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Generally happens when people switch from pipewire-media-session to wireplumber and don’t restart the audio subsystem (or just reboot).

For people who didn’t use PipeWire.

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Aargh, another update today, insisting that I replace pipewire-media-session with wireplumber for it to proceed. So I answer ‘y’ and reboot and - now once again - Youtube videos on Firefox have no sound :roll_eyes: :grimacing:

Any suggestions, short of reinstalling pipewire-media-session yet again.

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Do you have pipewire-pulse installed?

I have zero issues with this selection of PipeWire packages:

$ pacman -Qs pipewire
local/easyeffects 6.2.6-2
    Audio Effects for Pipewire applications
local/gst-plugin-pipewire 1:0.3.53-3
    Multimedia graph framework - pipewire plugin
local/helvum 0.3.4-1
    GTK patchbay for PipeWire
local/lib32-pipewire 1:0.3.53-3
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - 32-bit client library
local/lib32-pipewire-jack 1:0.3.53-3
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - 32-bit client library - JACK support
local/pipewire 1:0.3.53-3
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor
local/pipewire-alsa 1:0.3.53-3
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - ALSA configuration
local/pipewire-jack 1:0.3.53-3
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - JACK support
local/pipewire-pulse 1:0.3.53-3
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - PulseAudio replacement
local/wireplumber 0.4.11-1
    Session / policy manager implementation for PipeWire
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Thanks for the reply. Yes, the latest pipewire-pulse (1:0.3.54-1) is installed.

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Not sure if you want this but you could try switching back to pulseaudio and check if everything works on your end:

https://discovery.endeavouros.com/audio/pulseaudio/2021/12/

If you don’t want, just ignore this post :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thanks for the link. I followed the instructions and now everything is working with pulseaudio installed :smiley:

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It might work, but I very much dislike switching people back to deprecated software instead of fixing a problem that keeps happening (and making people think that PipeWire is trash and needs to be avoided etc. etc.).

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I am not sure if I have missed this.

There is no mention of it in ArchWiki and it seems to have been updated not long ago:

Last Updated: 2022-06-22 18:23 UTC

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“Deprecated” might be a bit hyperbolic… :sweat_smile: But, PipeWire is definitely intended as a replacement, and the direction that all sensible distros are heading in.

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You are right. It was a piece of “quick and dirty fix” perhaps.

Not my intention.

Right, I agree.

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I didn’t think it was - again, a wee bit of hyperbole/tongue-in-check commentary on how opinions are formed. :pensive:

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