www/firefox: crashing when intend to play video/streaming

[Chris Rees]

On 19 Mar 2013 19:04, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 23:30 +0900, Jan Beich wrote:
> > "O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> writes:
> >
> > > When trying to play  a video from YouTube or any other type of stream
on
> > > a website providing it, Firefox is "crashing"
> >
> > ARIFF_OSS option/patch in audio/alsa-plugins is not really maintained
> > and probably only needed for 7.x which is now EOL. It has a known
> > issue (see ports/170473) where www/firefox built with ALSA would
> > crash unless you set media.use_cubeb -> false in about:config.
> >
> > If you don't use youtube.com/html5 then my guess would be an issue
> > with IPC e.g., libevent14 is getting in the way again. Try setting
> > dom.ipc.plugins.enabled -> false.
>
> Hello.
>
> Thanks for this hint!
> I deactivated ALSA in the opetions-menu (as well as RTC stuff since it
> only builds with ALSA). I used PULSEAUDIO instead. I also configured the
> option in Firefox itself as recommended. The result is, that now the
> videos, no matter how they are embedded in a webpage, can be played
> again and Firefox isn't crashing anymore. dom.ipc.plugins.enabled ->
> true also remains the Firefox stable.

Why not try the OSS option?  Pulseaudio is usually a waste of time.

Chris