Nobara Sound Delay, could us a push in the right direction
EDIT : Appreciate all the input, never did figure out what the cause was.... Somewhere in booting between two kernels it just .. stopped being a pain in the ass .... Not my favorite type of resolution
Two weeks ago, I did some updates on my nobara desktop and ever since I've had a significant delay in any audio playing.
I've been poking at it with no luck, and am just out of ideas. Logs don't show anything worrying, running pulse audio in debug looks fine, tried reinstalling packages, tried some tweaks i found online and nothing seems to work.
Rebooting into live environments from USB shows the sound working fine so decent chance the hardware is ok.
Been administrating headless *nix systems since the 90s, finally decided to try on the desktop now that I don't have to use Windows, and .. struggling with this.
When you say delay, do you mean that the sound starts playing 1-2 seconds later, or that the mouth and the audio aren't synced? If you're meaning the #1, then I have the same problem on Firefox under Debian-Testing (kernel 6.10). No solution to it.
Kernel 6.11 has been super buggy for me. About 3 weeks ago Nobara rolled out that kernel if I'm not mistaken. Do you still have a 6.10 grub option to try out? Since the live usb works that could be the issue.
If all your boot entries are 6.11, boot into the oldest and downgrade that
I think the nobara updater works with yum. You should be able to access to the yum update history and find out what audio related packages got installed in the update and downgrade those. Anything with pipewire or alsa in the package name for example