Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:09:14 -0500
> schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com:
>
> > Hi. I have found since my latest update that html5 is getting no audio
> > 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 update,
> > 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 -pulseaudio,
> > 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 with
> MP3 files not decoding anymore around the same time as you did, despite
> installing Firefox with USE=gstreamer. I finally decided to debug it again
> today, and had success after installing gst-plugins-mad (although I would be
> surprised if gst-plugins-lame did not work, either). Now SoundCloud works
> again!
>
> For the future, regarding how to debug these issues, you can try the
> following:
>
> - 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 terminal,
> and the debug console showed many decoding errors. That made it pretty clear
> 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.
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