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
No luck so far. When I use ‘groups username’ in the terminal to compare the groups of both users they are exactly the same. Interestingly neither show ‘audio’ or ‘video’ as a group that they’re in - both users are only in ‘username’ and ‘users’. Yet both are able to play video, and only one gets audio along with it… The behaviour is the same from a cold boot with only one user logged in as it is when there are two users logged in.
Yeah, see my edit. This is a Pipewire session thing. Each user needs a unique Pipewire session to do audio. Video has nothing to do with Pipewire.