Re: [gentoo-user] html5 no longer working in firefox

Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote:

> Am Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:30:12 -0500
> schrieb covici@××××××××××.com:
>
> > Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Am Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:09:14 -0500
> > > schrieb covici@××××××××××.com:
> > >
> > > > Hi.  I have found since my latest update that html5 is getting no audio
> > > > in firefox.  I am not sure what libraries are involved in this -- I
> > > > downgraded firefox to 31.3.0, compiled with debug, but no error
> > > > messages.  It worked in early November so it must have been some update,
> > > > but I can't figure out which -- how can I even troubleshoot such a
> > > > thing.  I am using gnome 3.14.x, so I have the gnome overlay and the
> > > > "unstable" version of gentoo.  I compile with a use flag of -pulseaudio,
> > > > so its mostly Alsa unless gnome says otherwise.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > I don't know what exactly you mean with "no audio", but I had problems with
> > > MP3 files not decoding anymore around the same time as you did, despite
> > > installing Firefox with USE=gstreamer. I finally decided to debug it again
> > > today, and had success after installing gst-plugins-mad (although I would be
> > > surprised if gst-plugins-lame did not work, either). Now SoundCloud works again!
> > >
> > > For the future, regarding how to debug these issues, you can try the following:
> > >
> > > - Start Firefox from a terminal to see the log.
> > >
> > > - Use the debug console (Ctrl-Shift-i) to see site-specific (and plug-in
> > >   related!) error messages.
> > >
> > > In my case I was getting gstreamer related assertion failures in the terminal,
> > > and the debug console showed many decoding errors. That made it pretty clear
> > > that the issue must have something to do with GStreamer.
> >
> > By mo audio I mean that when I loaded the player (for plural site) I
> > heard no sound as I did before that update and was told that the player
> > used html5.
>
> That still sounds too vague to me, as I cannot tell whether you mean that the
> file does not play at all, or that it plays, but you can't hear anything, or
> maybe even that it's not possible to tell what exactly is going wrong.
>
> > I will try the control-shift-i -- does firefox have to be
> > compiled with debug to do this?
>
> No, you don't need to install firefox with FEATURES=debug.  The debug console
> is part of Firefox's built-in set of web developer tools.

hmmm, for the moment, I am assuming that the video is visible, but no
sound, as I am "visually impaired" this is an assumption.  But the
player loads and the time of the video keeps moving so this assumption
may be correct.


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