Since 2.32, YouTube videos now sometimes start playing muted unfortunately. This was partially fixed via bug #223195, but not completely fixed. When the bug occurs, it is now possible to fix by pausing the video and then playing it again. Since I cannot reproduce on demand, unfortunately I don't have GStreamer logs.
Still broken with the 21.08 runtime (including GStreamer 1.18)
This also sometimes happens for videos on developer.apple.com, e.g. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10033/. But unfortunately I still don't have a reproducer.
If we don't have time to investigate this soon, maybe a hack would work where we pause every video, then restart video playback? I know that sounds awful, but it would be a lot better than playing videos without sound.
FTR I can't reproduce it anymore in either stable or canary. I think it was a pipewire issue really.
(In reply to Alexander Mikhaylenko from comment #4) > FTR I can't reproduce it anymore in either stable or canary. > > I think it was a pipewire issue really. For the record, what's your OS and pipewire versions?
(In reply to Philippe Normand from comment #5) > (In reply to Alexander Mikhaylenko from comment #4) > > For the record, what's your OS and pipewire versions? Fedora 34 pipewire0.2-libs-0.2.7-5.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-libs-0.3.33-3.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-0.3.33-3.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-alsa-0.3.33-3.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-gstreamer-0.3.33-3.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.33-3.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-utils-0.3.33-3.fc34.x86_64
I hit this several times per day with Ephy Tech Preview on Fedora 34 with pipewire 0.3.33-3.fc34. It's not fixed.
Anything we can do to help with this?
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #8) > Anything we can do to help with this? Acquire human cloning technology
I think it's a pipewire bug, filed: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1738
With 2.35.1, I notice there is a roughly 50% chance that the video will become either muted or unmuted after performing a seek. I have to keep seeking sometimes several times in a row in order to get the sound to play again.
(In reply to Philippe Normand from comment #10) > I think it's a pipewire bug, filed: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1738 This is closed ^ ^, so can we close this too?
Yes, it's been a few weeks since I last saw this bug, so I'm fairly confident it's fixed.