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
I’ve recently released an Arch package that modifies pipewire to work system wide instead of being bound to the first running user. It’s somewhat less secure, which is why distributions don’t use this method, but should probably explain the issues your experiencing. Getting it to work properly was quite involved, but pointing your favorite LLM to my repo will probably get you far. Let me know if it helped you.
https://github.com/iddo/pipewire-system