PSA: pipewire update breaks mpv - Lemmy.world

PSA for anyone who is currently experiencing an issue where mpv doesn’t play audio and sees the following error: [ao] Failed to initialize audio driver ‘pipewire’ Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. The latest pipewire update breaks [https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/11995] mpv’s pipewire driver. Upstream mpv has a patch [https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/007019a303a09b098a387f607ae149705b57dc1c] for this, and a fixed package is already in [extra-testing]. To fix the issue, you can manually download and install an updated mpv package from here: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra-testing/x86_64/mpv/download/ [https://archlinux.org/packages/extra-testing/x86_64/mpv/download/]