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

[Florent Peterschmitt]

Le 20/03/2013 07:00, Chris Rees a écrit :
> 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

Yep, I've OSS for firefox and it works fine. PA is for dependency
purpose, isn't it ?

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