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Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Am Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:25:36 -0500 |
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> schrieb covici@××××××××××.com: |
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> > Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > > Am Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:30:12 -0500 |
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> > > schrieb covici@××××××××××.com: |
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> > > |
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> > > > Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > > > > Am Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:09:14 -0500 |
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> > > > > schrieb covici@××××××××××.com: |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > > Hi. I have found since my latest update that html5 is getting no audio |
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> > > > > > in firefox. I am not sure what libraries are involved in this -- I |
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> > > > > > downgraded firefox to 31.3.0, compiled with debug, but no error |
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> > > > > > messages. It worked in early November so it must have been some update, |
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> > > > > > but I can't figure out which -- how can I even troubleshoot such a |
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> > > > > > thing. I am using gnome 3.14.x, so I have the gnome overlay and the |
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> > > > > > "unstable" version of gentoo. I compile with a use flag of -pulseaudio, |
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> > > > > > so its mostly Alsa unless gnome says otherwise. |
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> > > > > > Any ideas would be appreciated. |
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> > > > > I don't know what exactly you mean with "no audio", but I had problems with |
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> > > > > MP3 files not decoding anymore around the same time as you did, despite |
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> > > > > installing Firefox with USE=gstreamer. I finally decided to debug it again |
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> > > > > today, and had success after installing gst-plugins-mad (although I would be |
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> > > > > surprised if gst-plugins-lame did not work, either). Now SoundCloud works again! |
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> Just for the record, since you use Firefox 31.3.0, I don't think this is it, |
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> because it depends on gst-plugins-meta, which pulls in all relevant gstreamer |
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> plug-ins depending on your USE flags. The problem I was referring to above is |
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> limited to Firefox 35.0. |
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> [...] |
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> > > > I will try the control-shift-i -- does firefox have to be |
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> > > > compiled with debug to do this? |
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> > > No, you don't need to install firefox with FEATURES=debug. The debug console |
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> > > is part of Firefox's built-in set of web developer tools. |
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> > hmmm, for the moment, I am assuming that the video is visible, but no |
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> > sound, as I am "visually impaired" this is an assumption. But the |
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> > player loads and the time of the video keeps moving so this assumption |
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> > may be correct. |
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> That's the sort of thing I was thinking of :) . From what you say, I agree |
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> with your assumption that playback itself works. Although, I vaguely recall |
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> that Firefox can play videos without sound if only the audio codec is |
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> unsupported (or maybe I'm thinking about playback without soundcard access, |
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> like when I have JACK running), so it could *potentially* still be a codec |
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> problem, despite what I wrote above. You should be able to verify that with the |
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> debug console that I already mentioned. |
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> Now as to why you don't here anything, I can only, at best, make educated |
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> guesses. Alas, I use pulseaudio, so I don't have any experience with Firefox |
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> with USE=-pulseaudio. My only ideas at the moment are: |
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> - Verify that sound in other applications works, if you haven't already. |
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> - Double-check the volume settings. |
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> - Verify that Firefox can actually access the soundcard (though this should not |
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> be a problem if you use the ALSA dmix plug-in, which is the default, I think). |
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> - In the event that it might be a codec problem after all, verify your USE flags |
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> (e.g., check for mp3, ogg, or whatever is failing). |
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> I don't think that there are any audio settings in Firefox itself, though I |
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> could be mistaken (I did look in about:config, but still couldn't find |
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> anything). |
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Funny thing is it used to work fine, early November and then some update |
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broke the thing, but I will definitely try the debug console and see if |
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it tells me anything. |
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Thanks. |
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John Covici |
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