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After having updated pipewire to 1.2.6 audio won't play (or with heavy stutter) until you hit pause and play or immediately restart your media; fixed by downgrading to 1.2.5. pipewire-1.2.6-1.fc41.i686 pipewire-1.2.6-1.fc41.x86_64 vlc-3.0.21-11.fc41.x86_64 wireplumber-0.5.5-2.fc41.x86_64 1) install and run vlc 2) don't play any video or audio for 10-15 seconds 3) play any video or audio format 4) repeat step 2 and 3 (and/or pause your current playing file) Actual results: video and audio files will play without sound; until you hit pause and play or immediately restart your media. Expected results: functional audio and video playback when possible. Kodek: Opus Audio (Opus) Kanaler: Stereo Samplingsfrekvens: 48000 Hz Bitar per sampling: 32 ogg warning: Consider increasing access caching variable from 1000 to >1920 pipewire warning: starting late main warning: playback way too late (222878): flushing buffers main warning: playback way too early (-1056867): playing silence main warning: playback way too late (715521): flushing buffers main warning: playback way too early (-1075758): playing silence main warning: playback too late (63989): up-sampling main warning: playback way too late (734408): flushing buffers main warning: playback way too early (-1073057): playing silence main warning: playback too late (63987): up-sampling Kodek: Vorbis Audio (vorb) Kanaler: Stereo Samplingsfrekvens: 48000 Hz Bitar per sampling: 32 pipewire warning: starting late main warning: playback way too late (211591): flushing buffers main warning: playback way too early (-1002688): playing silence main warning: playback too late (85284): up-sampling main warning: timing screwed (drift: 170575 us): stopping resampling main warning: playback too late (170553): up-sampling main warning: playback way too late (255856): flushing buffers main warning: playback way too early (-997504): playing silence main warning: playback too late (85288): up-sampling main warning: playback way too late (255829): flushing buffers Kodek: MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a) Kanaler: Stereo Samplingsfrekvens: 44100 Hz Bitar per sampling: 32 pipewire warning: starting late main warning: playback way too late (223263): flushing buffers main warning: playback way too early (-837725): playing silence main warning: playback way too late (234570): flushing buffers main warning: playback way too early (-1092650): playing silence main warning: playback way too late (234568): flushing buffers main warning: playback way too early (-834300): playing silence main warning: playback way too late (234613): flushing buffers main warning: playback way too early (-1089180): playing silence main warning: playback way too late (234597): flushing buffers Kodek: ADTS Kanaler: Stereo Samplingsfrekvens: 44100 Hz Bitar per sampling: 32 main warning: playback way too early (-1144490): playing silence main warning: playback too late (106674): up-sampling main warning: playback way too late (192015): flushing buffers main warning: playback way too early (-1120211): playing silence main warning: playback too late (85336): up-sampling main warning: playback way too late (191989): flushing buffers main warning: playback way too early (-1141003): playing silence main warning: playback too late (63977): up-sampling main warning: timing screwed (drift: 149303 us): stopping resampling main warning: playback too late (149302): up-sampling The aforementioned "log spam" on bohdi: pipewire debug: too early to start, silence pipewire debug: too early to start, silence pipewire debug: too early to start, silence pipewire debug: too early to start, silence pipewire debug: too early to start, silence pipewire debug: too early to start, silence pipewire debug: too early to start, silence pipewire debug: too early to start, silence pipewire debug: too early to start, silence pipewire debug: too early to start, silence
I can reproduce this on many more programs than just VLC, such as Firefox and virt-manager. Sometimes audio will play for a second but then it still stops. Interestingly I can only reproduce this on one of my real machines, it doesn't happen on my other or in my virtual machines running F41. Downgrading to 1.2.5 is necessary to have functional audio again. I checked upstream and didn't see any similar reports.
The latest update https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-18bf137a0c did unfortunately not fix my problem.
I can't reproduce this. between 1.2.5 and 1.2.6 there are only 23 changes, nothing really fundamental to how things are processed. If anything, there are 2 commits related to state changes: 9f7c481742f7f82037fd3b6f849b2a6b31713703 800a25a01f99156d7d954f4d7fe1b0a6cf8ae7e3 And 1 commit related to flushing the streams: 9bf04c7c4cb591fc78206db46fbf0996669a18b3 If would be great if someone experiencing the problem could try to revert those commits to see what is causing the problem.
Confirm still very bad in Pipewire 1.2.7-4.fc41 Reverting to 1.2.5-1.fc41 from @System repos works well. A lot of videos simply do not work, no audio or even hard fail in VLC. Can submit a short example video. I apologize I do not have further tools to help.
I can still reproduce this under pipewire-1.4.1-1.fc42
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