When I fire up a vid to watch on my netbook there is often no sound. If I play an audio file the sound works correctly. If I then go back to the vid and play it again the sound works just fine. I have a desktop machine with the same setup and this is never a issue. Has anyone else come across this?
Software:
KDE neon
VLC (but the problem is the same with any vid player)
Qmmp
ETA: A recent update appears to have fixed this problem.
Pipewire. The video player is simply playing a file (mp4 or mkv) that is on the same machine. And of course the problem is random so that doesn’t help either.