No sound in vivaldi

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No sound with Vivladi in Manjaro.
Firefox plays sound just fine.
VLC plays sound just fine.
Vivaldi plays sounds in Arch Linux.
Tried uninstalling and installing pipewire , pulse didn’t make a difference.
What setting am I missing.
I also am on KDE if that matters?
Thanks

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Do you have the vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs package installed?

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I didn’t so I installed it.
I closed Vivaldi and reopened it . Still no sound.
Do I need to restart computer?

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No, that would be pointless. At best, you could try logging out and back in.

However, I suspect — even though I could be wrong — that it’s the application-specific settings that play a role here.

I would suggest starting vivaldi and getting it to play a video. Then, while the video is playing, click the volume control — which either sits in your system tray or exists as a separate widget on your panel — and click the “Applications” tab, and check whether the audio for vivaldi isn’t muted.

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Vivaldi doesn’t show in the applications.

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Is Vivaldi set to block sound?

In Vivaldi, check under Settings > Privacy & Security. Scroll down to Website Permissions and see if Sound is set to Allow or Block.

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Please post more information about system

inxi -SMAaz

and audio playing from Vivaldi

pactl list sink-inputs
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I have switched to Vivaldi and - aside from the obvious reference to a famous composer - sound is working as expected.

I suggest to look at your sound configuration.

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To answer questions.
Sound is allowed in Vivaldi settings

[demo@Manjaro ~]$ inxi -SMAaz
System:
  Kernel: 6.14.1-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.14-x86_64
    root=UUID=45ca132d-4a37-4dc3-afa0-be2e80d6a4a2 rw quiet
    udev.log_priority=3 libata.noacpi=1 kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.12.0
    wm: kwin_x11 with: plank tools: xscreensaver,xscreensaver-systemd vt: 2
    dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Convertible System: HP product: HP Spectre x360 Convertible 15-df1xxx
    v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 31
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 863F v: 54.24 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: 7UT64UA#ABA uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI v: F.32
    date: 12/08/2023
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl alternate: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_avs,
    snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:02c8 class-ID: 0401
  API: ALSA v: k6.14.1-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
[demo@Manjaro ~]$ pactl list sink-inputs
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Hi. Check the sound “mini icon” in the Vivaldi icon in your Window Manager panel (in my case KDE).

See the icon when video is not playing. You see no sound mini icon.
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See the icon when video with sound is playing. You see the sound mini icon as muted in my case. It’s easy to overlook and it was the cause in my case.
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I had to add the widget in my kde plasma to show the icon. It doesn’t change when I am playing a video.

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Same issue here. Vivaldi went mute after a bulk software update around 2 months ago, so it’s hard to pinpoint the culprit. Further updates did not fix this.

I did not bother to debug this, since it is a work laptop, and I rarely play media in a browser on it, plus there’s Brave as a backup.

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Without more info we don’t know if your problem is the same. Others such as myself don’t have this problem. Did you try the vivaldi forums?

@MAYBL8
I noticed a difference from my system for my audio devices all use snd_hda_intel but your driver is: sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl so when I did a search the first result was: [SOLVED] built-in audio doesn't work / Newbie Corner / Arch Linux Forums, maybe worth checking out?

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I feel so stupid. If you right click on the tab itself option “Mute Tab” was selected. Unchecked it and sound plays.

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I did tell you to check that, didn’t I? :grin:

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Oh my, I believe you did. :guitar:

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Yeah I missed reading that. Well thanks for trying to help someone that has trouble following the rule of Basic Reading Required.

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