firefox-43 && no sound on MP3, MP4, HTML5

[Oleg Nauman]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:

> El día Thursday, April 28, 2016 a las 10:58:41PM +0200, Jan Beich escribió:
>
> > > $ LANG=C paplay Track01.mp3
> > > Failed to open audio file.
> >
> > paplay(1) doesn't support MP3. Try passing --list-file-formats then
> > transcode to one of those e.g.,
> >
> >   $ ffmpeg -i Track01.mp3 Track01.wav
> >   $ paplay Track01.wav
>
> Track01.wav plays fine.
>
>
> > Maybe query pkg.freebsd.org using pkg(8) instead of asking e.g.,
> >
> >   $ pkg rquery "%n-%v" firefox
> >   firefox-46.0_1,1
>
> I was not aware of remote-query, because I always use my own local
> repository. Thanks for that useful pointer.
>
> > >> If audio/pulseaudio doesn't work *by default* file a bug for the
> > >> maintainer (gnome@) to notice and maybe CC consumers (e.g. gecko@).
>
> As said, it plays with the default /usr/local/etc/pulse/default.pa.
> And why FF with PULSEAUDIO=on does not?
>
> I still have the old FF pkg with PULSEAUDIO=on and could reinstall it
> again if someone is willing to help me to mail it down, i.e. where to
> look in detail.
>

Check /var/log/messages for possible pulseaudio complaints.

>
>
> There must be some problem with FF and PULSEAUDIO=on because the net is
> full of complaints.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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