Description: Since updating yesterday, videos on youtube,twitch, and reddit are unable to play. However, I can scrub through them and view the full video is loading, just not playing. Youtube suggests to restart the device. Yesterday, if I restarted it would work upon startup, but if firefox would ever close then it would break again. Today the problem is persistent on startup.

To make sure it is not a Firefox, or network issue, I launched chromium completely vanilla. No cookies, history, plugins, or add-ons. The problem still persisted there.

Games can be played and VLC is able to launch, but with no audio. M4V and streams also refuse to load, but M4V can still be scrubbed through.

I am new to arch, I fully admit, but I am confused as to what package(s) being updated could lead to an issue on all these systems at once.

Attempts I have already made:

installing flashplugin jre gstreamer0.10-plugins ffmpeg.

updating packages again, including AUR packages with yay

reinstalling packages (pacman -Qqen > pkglist.txt, pacman --force -S $(< pkglist.txt)

rebooting

Additional info:
pacman -Q > https://pastebin.com/U3Myvjp5

Brief specs: https://pastebin.com/9yKd9knA




Steps to reproduce: I am not sure what package/s might have caused such a system standstill. If you have done a full package update lately, check if you can watch streams, youtube videos, listen to audio, or watch M4V videos lately.