Re: Issues with Firefox 26 and sound (html5 videos)

[Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost>]

From: Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost>, Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 
20:00:03 +0900 (JST)

> Hi,
> 
> From: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>, Date: Tue, 
> 21 Jan 2014 09:55:56 +0100
> 
>> On 21 January 2014 09:12, Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>>> You need to set up pulseaudio. See e.g.
>>> https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/using_pulseaudio/
>>>
>>> for details how to do that.
>> 
>> Thanks Thomas, but now I've discovered that FF won't even play the
>> video. I was fooled into thinking it was a sound problem only because
>> the video seem to start but it actually hangs.
>> 
>> I use this test page:
>> http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody/test.html

By the way,
I use the following web site to check the functionality of
native video playback of Firefox.
It support more codecs.
H.264/WebM/OggTheora are supported.

http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html

>> and any youtube videos.
>> 
>> I can see the progress bar loading in the background but the video won't 
>> start.
>> 
>> Has it got to do with video codecs?
>> 
>> Where would one grab the codecs for V8/V9 (Webm) and Vorbis on Netbsd?
>> Are included in pulseaudio?
> 
> I can watch your video correctly with sound with firefox-26.0nb1 under
> NetBSD/amd64 6.99.29.
> 
> V8/V9/Vorbis codecs are built in firefox 26.0.
> And if you want to play H.264 or other videos, you can use gstreamer 0.10
> codecs to play H.264 or other videos. (But I have no idea what packages
> enable H.264 video...)
> 
> If your video's progress bar cannot progress, pulseaudio does not
> work properly in many cases.
> 
> $ pulseaudio --kill
> $ pulseaudio --cleanup-shm
> $ pulseaudio --start
> 
> may help you.
> 
> Or kill, cleanup-shm and reboot firefox.
> 
> And pulseaudio 2.1.nb12 or earlier is not stable, especially second
> invocation of pulseaudio causes hang of pulseaudio.
> You can confirm your pulseaudio version.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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