I’m suddenly unable to get audio for video files, but only for one user and seemingly only with pipewire… It’s the same in all video players I’ve tried, flatpak and deb.

If I log in as a different user everything is fine. And if I change the audio to alsa in mpv I get audio again there. Music files are unaffected.

I don’t know if a permissions issue has arisen somewhere, another application is ‘hogging’ pipewire, or something else.

Any help much appreciated!

Debian 13, GNOME 48, Wayland

  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de
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    2 hours ago

    Is the video player application itself muted in pipewire? What’s the output device set to?

    You can check these things with an application like pavucontrol. Pipewire (and pulse) have a default audio device, but individual applications can set a different audio device if they want to.

    Another great category of utilities for pipewire is virtual patchbays. If you’re looking for something simple, helvum or qpwgraph are geat. For all the technical details in a GUI, coppwr provides a good experience.