Firefox 12 has no HTML5 audio

[Sulev-Madis Silber]

On 2012-06-29 00:58, Jan Beich wrote:
> Sulev-Madis Silber <madis555 at hot.ee> writes:
> 
>> Hello.
>>
>> I've had this problem since Firefox 4. It still doesn't work in 12. I
>> remember it worked in 3.6.
> 
> Can you confirm that 3.6 still works? Either check out www/firefox36
> from experimental branch or www/firefox36 as last seen in CVS, e.g. use
> date= in supfile to go back in csup(1).
> 
>>
>> Players seem to work, just no sound output. I have no idea what kind of
>> sound output it tries to use. It doesn't seem to connect to PulseAudio
>> too. I only have one sound card in machine (a T60). Audio works with
>> everything I use. I *only* have problem with Firefox.
>>
>> I have no idea how I should debug this. Others report it works. How come
>> it doesn't work for me? Using 8.2 on i386.
> 
> Can you test www/firefox-nightly from experimental branch using
> PulseAudio option? media.use_cubeb is enabled by default (for pulse/alsa),
> try toggling this hidden pref in about:config, too.
> 
>>
>> It's really frustrating problem I have no solution to. Also Firefox port
>> is compiled with standard options. I have no other fancy tuning made for
>> other ports too. All compiled, no packages. I regularly update ports and
>> check UPDATING too.
>>
>>
>> Thanks.


In Firefox 13, it all suddenly started working again.

Strange, because others reported it working with all versions. Really
strange... what was wrong in my system? It now uses OSS nicely and also
video works :)