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

[Diane Bruce]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 07:47:57AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have CURRENT from December and all ports from this date too on amd64.
> Esp. firefox-43. 
> 
> FF plays sound on youtube flash content, but not when I switch off flash
> (I assume that then it uses HTML5 for the video). When flash is off, the
> video is shown but no sound. As well it plays muted (i.e. picture but no
> sound) any local MP3 or MP4 file.
> 
> The same file is, for example, fine with audio when I use
> 
> $ gst-launch playbin uri=file:///usr/home/guru/diario2016/imagenes/video20160426_171720632.mp4
> 
> or with 
> 
> $ mplayer /usr/home/guru/diario2016/imagenes/video20160426_171720632.mp4
> 
> Any idea where to look into?
> 
> Thanks

I wonder if it is this bug? 

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208570

Considering I saw someone comment that firefox works with pulseaudio,
which is exactly what we saw with our application until this patch
was used. With this patch, alsa works fine with qt-multimedia.

> 
> 	matthias

Diane
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