Video stop playing when sound is unmuted, replay when muted

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Good morning,

For a reason I ignore, when I wanna play a video, it stop when the sound unmuted (the load cursor appeared and it locks), and then when the sound is muted the video replay again …
I cannot play any video on VLC too …

It does that on Firefox, Google Chrome, and any video, I tried on Youtube, Udemy, or other website, you turned the sound and the video stop playing and locks in this state.

I can provide you information from command to support me in this issue.

Thank you

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Other information:

inxi -Aazy

Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:9d70 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.28-1-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: 1.4.2 status: off with: wireplumber status: off
    tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0-43-g3e2bb status: active with: pulseaudio-alsa
    type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl

Another information, when I use this command, the sound start playing and video player behave normally:

systemctl --user stop wireplumber.service

But if I restart the sound stop and the issue described above is back.

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Maybe try disable instead, with that command, after using your example to stop it first?

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I did try but I got this message:

~ systemctl --user disable wireplumber.service                                                                                                                                                       
 
The following unit files have been enabled in global scope. This means
they will still be started automatically after a successful disablement
in user scope:
wireplumber.service
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inxi data shows PulseAudio is active and pulseaudio-alsa is installed to use PulseAudio as default ALSA output

Wireplumber is a session/policy manager for PipeWire and is not needed if PipeWire is not running

Try masking the service

systemctl --user mask wireplumber.service
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thank you all for your support.

systemctl --user mask wireplumber.service                                                                                                                                                          

Created symlink '/home/workstation/.config/systemd/user/wireplumber.service' → '/dev/null'.

Why it created a symlink ?

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systemctl --user stop wireplumber.service 
systemctl --user status wireplumber.service                                                                                                                                                        

○ wireplumber.service
     Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit wireplumber.service is masked.)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Fri 2025-05-23 11:15:21 CEST; 9h ago
   Duration: 2min 49.650s
 Invocation: d31a7e9800204567b6f1172e052dd8c0
   Main PID: 2658 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Mem peak: 9M
        CPU: 300ms

I am going to reboot and see if it keep this state

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It worked, I reboot my system and everything is fine now.
Thanks to all !

systemctl --user status wireplumber.service                                                                                                                                                        

○ wireplumber.service
     Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit wireplumber.service is masked.)
     Active: inactive (dead)
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Linux TLDR - Systemctl Mask vs Systemctl Disable

if you mask your services using the systemctl mask command, no matter what services or dependencies require your service, it will not start manually or on the system boot.

This is all done with the help of symbolic links also known as symlinks

In the systemctl mask command, the service is a symlink to the /dev/null file. which makes it impossible to start on system boot or manually by you, even if it is required by another service or dependency.

Using the systemctl unmask command will delete the symlink to /dev/null

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Ok thank you for the explanation

Thank all for support

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