[gentoo-user] No audio from Firefox 47.0.1

[gentoo-user] No audio from Firefox 47.0.1

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

Since I upgraded firefox recently I've lost sound from the BBC radio iplayer 
[1]. It loads the initial page but never returns from "Loading..." Remembering 
the news item about libav and ffmpeg I searched for corresponding USE flags 
against firefox but found neither.

Has anyone else come across this? I didn't notice what was happening at first 
because I was tied up in knots with KDE-5. For the moment I'm going back to 
45.2.0.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_three

-- 
Rgds
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] No audio from Firefox 47.0.1

[Daniel Frey]

On 07/17/2016 10:50 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Since I upgraded firefox recently I've lost sound from the BBC radio iplayer 
> [1]. It loads the initial page but never returns from "Loading..." Remembering 
> the news item about libav and ffmpeg I searched for corresponding USE flags 
> against firefox but found neither.
> 
> Has anyone else come across this? I didn't notice what was happening at first 
> because I was tied up in knots with KDE-5. For the moment I'm going back to 
> 45.2.0.
> 
> [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_three
> 

I had this problem when I changed firefox to use chrome-binary-plugins.
Are you using pulseaudio?

In my case the plugin was muted, I went into pulse volume control and
found it. (This was after about 20 minutes of scratching my head
wondering why everything but firefox worked.)

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] No audio from Firefox 47.0.1

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Re: [gentoo-user] No audio from Firefox 47.0.1

[Peter Humphrey]

On Sunday 17 July 2016 11:29:14 Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 07/17/2016 10:50 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > Since I upgraded firefox recently I've lost sound from the BBC radio
> > iplayer [1]. It loads the initial page but never returns from
> > "Loading..." Remembering the news item about libav and ffmpeg I searched
> > for corresponding USE flags against firefox but found neither.
> > 
> > Has anyone else come across this? I didn't notice what was happening at
> > first because I was tied up in knots with KDE-5. For the moment I'm going
> > back to 45.2.0.
> > 
> > [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_three
> 
> I had this problem when I changed firefox to use chrome-binary-plugins.
> Are you using pulseaudio?
> 
> In my case the plugin was muted, I went into pulse volume control and
> found it. (This was after about 20 minutes of scratching my head
> wondering why everything but firefox worked.)

No, it isn't audio failing, it's firefox not completing the connection with 
the server.

No, I'm not using pulseaudio.

-- 
Rgds
Peter