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From: Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku <jigme.datse@×××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 49.0 & Youtube....Video: Yes - Audio: No...
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 06:59:34
Message-Id: b45acf6b-9215-d58a-8b6e-3f2cc5f7230d@datsemultimedia.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 49.0 & Youtube....Video: Yes - Audio: No... by Meino.Cramer@gmx.de
1 With Pulseaudio the best way (I have found) for controling the volume, is through the pulse audio volume controls.
2
3 It works well for me. Though they are somewhat of a pain (though not sure if that's because I simply don't know the "easier" way to handle them.
4
5 I also tend to like to handle volume control through external speaker controls if practical.
6
7 Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku
8
9 On 2016-10-15 23:48, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
10 > Miroslav Rovis <miro.rovis@××××××××××××××.hr> [16-10-16 07:00]:
11 > > On 161015-20:27+0200, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
12 > >> Hi,
13 > >>
14 > >> this evening I updated GENTOO and a new firefox was installed.
15 > >> This one seem completly to disable flash video finally...
16 > >> since I got no video/audio at all.
17 > >>
18 > >> I disabled all flash-related addons of my firefox and
19 > >> restarted it.
20 > >>
21 > >> Now I got a video ... but without any audio.
22 > >> (I am running jackd by the way).
23 > >> I check with qjackctl whether there were any
24 > >> ports which I missed to connect...nothing.
25 > >
26 > > If jackd is to do with alsa, then it could be the following.
27 > >
28 > > Mozilla went pulse all the way:
29 > > Require PulseAudio on Linux
30 > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247056
31 > > See also:
32 > > Firefox nightly requires Pulse Audio
33 > > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=130028
34 > >
35 > >> Hmmm...
36 > >>
37 > >> Is there any fix for that?
38 > > Not familiar with jackd. But as far as alsa (which I stick to, like
39 > > other discontented users), I don't have sound since months ago. The
40 > > only way to get it would be to compile alsa myself, I'm afraid.
41 > >
42 > > Regards!
43 > > --
44 > > Miroslav Rovis
45 > > Zagreb, Croatia
46 > > http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr
47 >
48 > Hi Miroslav,
49 >
50 > THANKS A LOT ! :)
51 >
52 > ...got it working...somehow...
53 >
54 > I installed pulseaudio and used pactl to set the default sink
55 > and source to the one soundcard (onboard), which is connected
56 > to my loudspeakers.
57 >
58 > Drawback: Setting the volume seems only to be tweakable via
59 > the volume slider of the HTML5 player in Firefox...and my alsa
60 > volume "app" of my taskbar doesn't work anymore.
61 >
62 > Hopefully the rest of my sound stuff still works....
63 >
64 >
65 > Cheers,
66 > Meino
67 >
68
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