No audio for videos but only for one user and with pipewire
2026-03-12 16:08 UTC
Replies (6)
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@Dubois_arache@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-14 00:16
I solved it unistalling it. I didn’t want to use pipewire anyway.
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@just_another_person@lemmy.world 2026-03-12 16:17
Check the groups the working user is included in, and make sure the non-working user is in those same groups. See if anything there. Edit: Oh, you know what. I think this is probably Pipewire not starting for multiple users when multiple are logged in. On the non-working user, you need to start a unique Pipewire session for that user, because the other working user's session can't be shared by default.
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@exu@feditown.com 2026-03-12 18:57
Is the pipewire service enabled for that user? It's a systemd user service
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@deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 2026-03-12 19:49
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.
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@elmicha@feddit.org 2026-03-12 18:11
I'm not familiar with pipewire, but is there a mixer somewhere in the pipe?
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@oeuf@slrpnk.net 2026-03-30 20:16
Crazy - it hasn't happened again since my original post, until literally just now. I come on Lemmy to look for the thread and remind myself how to fix it, and here is your comment! I'll have a look, thanks :) How is it less secure?