From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MlI6k-0004GY-5m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:00:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 299B6E07AA; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:00:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A807E07D8 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:00:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77ED6707B for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:00:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.148 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.148 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.549, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TWtAGSB65Ooy for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2807964CB8 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:00:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MlI6W-0008Lj-Td for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:00:36 +0200 Received: from athedsl-374790.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.16.4]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:00:36 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-374790.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:00:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer and sound in firefox during playback Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:00:14 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <8763btngjo.fsf@newsguy.com> <200909090905.43154.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-374790.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090826 Thunderbird/3.0b3 In-Reply-To: <200909090905.43154.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: cfe9e024-f231-4989-b6b2-0ab46c31aecc X-Archives-Hash: 700c7ca6577db04e84d2c30aa9a0af01 On 09/09/2009 10:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 09 September 2009 01:49:15 Harry Putnam wrote: >> I've installed mplayer and am able to play back online vidoes like >> quicktime. However, I get no sound. >> >> Playing the same file retrieved from browser cache, directly with >> mplayer, works with sound. >> >> What do I need to do with firefox to get the sound of videos? > > > > Was firefox built with USE=alsa? Doesn't matter. It's the plugin that plays the sound, not Firefox (I know because I have Firefox without the alsa USE flag and it works OK.)