Troubleshooting Youtube Playback with Pipewire
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Hello again,
This is just another short blog post about a small issue I’ve had a few times in the last year: On Arch Linux, Youtube won’t play at all. I have to reboot to make it work again.
I did like, the minimum amount of googling about it and found some Reddit threads about it:
Unfortunately, all the other information I found (including the above link) is 2+
years old, and a lot has changed about my setup since then. They suggest installing
pipewire-pulse and restarting, but I have pipewire-pulse and still have issues.
Next time this happens, I should probably check the logs for pipewire-pulse.service
and pipewire.service to get more information. I bet restarting those would be a good
workaround.