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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] html5 no longer working in firefox
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Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:09:14 -0500
> schrieb covici@ccs.covici.com:
> =
> > Hi. I have found since my latest update that html5 is getting no audi=
o
> > 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 updat=
e,
> > 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 -pulseaudi=
o,
> > 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 w=
ith
> MP3 files not decoding anymore around the same time as you did, despite
> installing Firefox with USE=3Dgstreamer. I finally decided to debug it a=
gain
> today, and had success after installing gst-plugins-mad (although I woul=
d be
> surprised if gst-plugins-lame did not work, either). Now SoundCloud work=
s again!
> =
> For the future, regarding how to debug these issues, you can try the fol=
lowing:
> =
> - 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 ter=
minal,
> and the debug console showed many decoding errors. That made it pretty c=
lear
> 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. I will try the control-shift-i -- does firefox have to be
compiled with debug to do this?
Thanks.
-- =
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici
covici@ccs.covici.com