I’m suddenly unable to get audio for video files, but only for one user and seemingly only with pipewire… It’s the same in all video players I’ve tried, flatpak and deb.
If I log in as a different user everything is fine. And if I change the audio to alsa in mpv I get audio again there. Music files are unaffected.
I don’t know if a permissions issue has arisen somewhere, another application is ‘hogging’ pipewire, or something else.
Any help much appreciated!
Debian 13, GNOME 48, Wayland


I had issues with media keys and ended up using a plugin to handle it: https://github.com/hoyon/mpv-mpris
This may not be the proper solution (since yours were working previously, mine never worked) but if you don’t have any other suggestions it may work for you.