Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 49.0 & Youtube....Video: Yes - Audio: No...

Miroslav Rovis <miro.rovis@××××××××××××××.hr> [16-10-16 07:00]:
> On 161015-20:27+0200, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this evening I updated GENTOO and a new firefox was installed.
> > This one seem completly to disable flash video finally...
> > since I got no video/audio at all.
> >
> > I disabled all flash-related addons of my firefox and
> > restarted  it.
> >
> > Now I got a video ... but without any audio.
> > (I am running jackd by the way).
> > I check with qjackctl whether there were any
> > ports which I missed to connect...nothing.
>
> If jackd is to do with alsa, then it could be the following.
>
> Mozilla went pulse all the way:
>  Require PulseAudio on Linux
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056
> See also:
> Firefox nightly requires Pulse Audio
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=130028
>
> > Hmmm...
> >
> > Is there any fix for that?
> Not familiar with jackd. But as far as alsa (which I stick to, like
> other discontented users), I don't have sound since months ago.  The
> only way to get it would be to compile alsa myself, I'm afraid.
>
> Regards!
> --
> Miroslav Rovis
> Zagreb, Croatia
> http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr

Hi Miroslav,

THANKS A LOT ! :)

...got it working...somehow...

I installed pulseaudio and used pactl to set the default sink
and source to the one soundcard (onboard), which is connected
to my loudspeakers.

Drawback: Setting the volume seems only to be tweakable via
the volume slider of the HTML5 player in Firefox...and my alsa
volume "app" of my taskbar doesn't work anymore.

Hopefully the rest of my sound stuff still works....


Cheers,
Meino