Browser multimedia doesn't seem to be working

Hey!

No videos are loading, just endlessly buffering. Audio only, like soundcloud is behaving similarly. Also, my system doesn’t pick up my built-in mic, nor a wired one.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance!

Looks likes drivers issues, just search drivers for Your GPU and Audio card manually.

Some information about your system would be helpful. Please read and post inxi output:

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Hey! Thanks for your reply! Here is the output:

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.6-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
  root=UUID=d881ef23-1b2e-4980-8c43-98df5fdf2193 rw quiet
  cryptdevice=UUID=27535c08-05f9-4a7d-9c39-5dda6bcd851d:luks-27535c08-05f9-4a7d-9c39-5dda6bcd851d
  root=/dev/mapper/luks-27535c08-05f9-4a7d-9c39-5dda6bcd851d apparmor=1
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7
  dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC
  v: 0974120000405F00000620180 serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10
  serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 808B v: 90.35 serial: <superuser required>
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: F.34 date: 12/04/2014
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 8.5 Wh (55.9%) condition: 15.2/15.2 Wh (100.0%)
  volts: 14.4 min: 14.8 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion
  serial: N/A status: Discharging cycles: 136
Memory:
  RAM: total: 10.89 GiB used: 1.85 GiB (17.0%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: AMD A10-4655M APU with Radeon HD Graphics bits: 64
  type: MCP arch: Piledriver family: 15 (21) model-id: 10 (16) stepping: 1
  microcode: 6001119 cache: L1: 320 KiB L2: 8 MiB bogomips: 15976
  Speed: 1751 MHz min/max: 1400/2000 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
  1: 1383 2: 1397 3: 1383 4: 1394
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm aes aperfmperf apic arat avx bmi1 clflush cmov
  cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists
  extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fma4 fpu fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate
  ibs lahf_lm lbrv lm lwp mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor msr mtrr
  nodeid_msr nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw pae pat pausefilter
  pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse
  pse36 rdtscp rep_good sep skinit ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  svm_lock syscall tbm tce topoext tsc tsc_scale vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wdt
  xop xsave
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2
  mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Trinity [Radeon HD 7620G] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  driver: radeon v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:9907 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony HP Truevision HD camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  bus-ID: 2-4:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b40e class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.1 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver:
  loaded: ati,radeon unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
  display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
  s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
  Monitor-1: eDP res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 101 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6")
  diag: 395mm (15.5")
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Trinity HDMI Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1 chip-ID: 1002:9902
  class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1022:780d class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.6-2-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.40 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtl8723be v: kernel port: e000
  bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136
  class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
  bus-ID: 3-3:2 chip-ID: 0bda:b001 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
  Device-1: luks-27535c08-05f9-4a7d-9c39-5dda6bcd851d maj-min: 254:0
  type: LUKS dm: dm-0 size: 308.06 GiB
  Components:
  p-1: sda6 maj-min: 8:6 size: 308.06 GiB
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 15.7 GiB (0.8%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD
  size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
  type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: hp model: DVDRW SU208GB rev: HH00
  dev-links: cdrom
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 308.06 GiB size: 302.15 GiB (98.08%)
  used: 15.67 GiB (5.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
  mapped: luks-27535c08-05f9-4a7d-9c39-5dda6bcd851d label: N/A
  uuid: d881ef23-1b2e-4980-8c43-98df5fdf2193
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
  used: 29.8 MiB (5.8%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
  uuid: 5F69-4FE0
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 732 MiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
  uuid: ab393a2e-8210-45c5-9566-199a53a6999b
  ID-2: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
  label: N/A uuid: N/A
  ID-3: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 296.61 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
  uuid: 94287DD4287DB638
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 2-4:2 info: Chicony HP Truevision HD camera type: Video
  driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
  chip-ID: 04f2:b40e class-ID: 0e02
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 5 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-3:2 info: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
  interfaces: 2 rev: 2.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:b001
  class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 5 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-7: 7-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-8: 8-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-9: 9-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 44.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 235 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1261 lib: 344 flatpak: 0
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.12 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.09

Maybe try the solution (post #2) listed here:

Also, 5.14 kernel is EOL and it is a good idea to have a swap file or swap partition.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap

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Worked perfectly! Thank you!

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