Audio broken after switching to pipewire

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My obs wasnt working and some thread here said to try switching to pipewire. I did that and obs worked yay. However it seems that something went wrong. Audio breaks after some time. For example youtube videos don’t play at all and I hear no audio from mp3 files. Restarting pipewire fixes it but it happens again after a few hours. Any ideas what might be the problem?

I checked the status and it had this printed around 10 times:
spa.alsa: hw:3,0,0: (125 missed) snd_pcm_avail after recover: Broken pipe

I installed pipewire with the manjaro-pipewire package

Edit: I figured out that I can temporarely get around the issue by switching my audio source back and forth. I read about the same issue on the arch forums but they just said to wait. Is it fixed or is this still an issue on manjaro’s side?

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Can you verify any of these things?

PipeWire#No_Sound_or_pactl_info_shows_Failure:_Connection_refused

PipeWire#Audio_cutting_out_when_multiple_streams_start_playing

PipeWire#Audio_problems_after_standby

And maybe this thing here:

[HowTo] Provide System Information

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Test : Install wireplumber remove pipewire-media-session

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Alright so I don’t have that config file on the first link. I tried creating it with touch and this happened on pipeware-pulse:

pw.context: 0x558ba1526d00: no modules loaded from context.modules
default: acquire_rt thread:0x7f50b0c3b6c0 prio:-1 not implemented

I guess it doesn’t like empty files. The 2nd link sounds what might cause my problem but I have none of those configs.

Sorry for not providing system info. Here’s the audio output from inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --width

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP104 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: DSEA A/S Sennheiser GSA 70
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 1395:0089 class-ID: 0300
    serial: <filter>
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.29-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.70 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl

Moderator edit: In the future, please use proper formatting: [HowTo] Post command output and file content as formatted text

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I am using wireplumber. Most of the stuff online seem to use pipewire-media-session but that seems to be going deprecated soon. I kinda have the feeling that I don’t have wireplumber and/or pipewire in general configured properly

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Well we should try it out then


For pipewire-media-session:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/pipewire/media-session.d
printf '\napi.alsa.headroom = 1024' | sudo tee -a /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/alsa-monitor.conf

(reboot)


Theres another one for wireplumber:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/wireplumber/main.lua.d
printf '\napply_properties = { \n    ["api.alsa.headroom"] = 1024, \n},' | sudo tee -a /etc/wireplumber/main.lua.d/50-alsa-config.lua

(reboot)

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Is there a missmatch realtime and normal ?

sorry bad english ar

rt = realtime ?

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I tried that and got this error
wireplumber.service: Start request repeated too quickly. wireplumber.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Failed to start Multimedia Service Session Manager.

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Is there a default configuration I can put there or something?

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As far as I know those files should not be owned by any package.
You can check with pacman -Qo /path/to/file.

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That says that no package owns /etc/wireplumber which is strange

Oh yeah I also checked pipewire-pulse when the audio cut out. This is what I got:

pipewire-pulse[971]: mod.protocol-pulse: client 0x559cb5f1f170 [libcanberra]: ERROR command:18 (PLAY_SAMPLE) tag:177 error:25 (Input/output error)

I think it might be pipewire-pulse related

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meaning you can remove them.
The files didnt exist before. If they didnt help then you can remove them.
Do inspect them though … maybe they were somehow malformed … and maybe you want to attempt the fix gain. Reference for that: PipeWire - ArchWiki

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Alright something I didn’t notice is that the pipewire official documentation that is linked on the wiki actually mentions that you have to copy the files from /usr/share/wireplumber/main.lua.d/50-alsa-config.lua to /etc/wireplumber/main.lua.d/50-alsa-config.lua. I got the ["api-alsa-headroom"] = 1024 to work now. Time to see if it fixes the audio issue.

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