Bug#585149: iceweasel: No sound in videos using the html5 <video> tag

[Jad Zoghaib]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.5.9-3
Severity: normal

Videos using the new html5 <video> tag such as the one on http://www.mozilla-europe.org/fr/firefox/video/ are played correctly by iceweasel 3.5.9 except there is no sound at all. The problem does not occur when playing a "flash" video through the gnash plugin or an embedded video played through the gecko-mediaplayer-plugin.
When downloading the Ogg/Theora video and playing it through a media player (such as mplayer), sound is working flawlessly.

Moreover, browsing local files with iceweasel (with file:///home/ in the address bar) and opening either an Ogg/Vorbis music file or an Ogg/Theora video shows the same problem.
This problem was identified only on the debian-ppc version of iceweasel 3.5.9, the same version installed on my debian-amd64 works correctly.

Please tell me if you need more information.

Best regards.

Jad

-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: Default
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled

-- Plugins information
Name: DivX Browser Plug-In
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so
Package: gecko-mediaplayer
Status: enabled

Name: GCJ Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea) 1.0
Location: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ppc/gcjwebplugin.so
Package: icedtea-gcjwebplugin
Status: enabled

Name: QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.4
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-qt.so
Package: gecko-mediaplayer
Status: enabled

Name: RealPlayer 9
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-rm.so
Package: gecko-mediaplayer
Status: enabled

Name: Shockwave Flash
Location: /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so
Package: mozilla-plugin-gnash
Status: enabled

Name: Silverlight Plug-In
Location: /usr/lib/moon/plugin/libmoonloader.so
Package: moonlight-plugin-core
Status: enabled

Name: Windows Media Player Plug-in
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so
Package: gecko-mediaplayer
Status: enabled

Name: mplayerplug-in is now gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.9.2
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so
Package: gecko-mediaplayer
Status: enabled


-- Addons package information
ii  gecko-mediapla 0.9.9.2-1      Multimedia plug-in for Gecko browsers
ii  icedtea-gcjweb 1.0+dak1-1     Java plugin based on IcedTea and gcjwebplugi
ii  iceweasel      3.5.9-3        Web browser based on Firefox
ii  moonlight-plug 1.0.1-3+b1     Free Software clone of Silverlight 1.0 - plu
ii  mozilla-plugin 0.8.7-2+b1     free Shockwave Flash (SWF) movie player - Pl

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils                   3.2.3      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig                    2.8.0-2.1  generic font configuration library
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-9   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.4-1  GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.1-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.20.1-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnspr4-0d                   4.8.4-1    NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.4-1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  procps                        1:3.2.8-9  /proc file system utilities
ii  xulrunner-1.9.1               1.9.1.9-7  XUL + XPCOM application runner

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  libgssapi-krb5- 1.8.1+dfsg-3             MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libkrb53        1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
pn  mozplugger      <none>                   (no description available)
ii  ttf-lyx         1.6.5-1                  TrueType versions of some TeX font
pn  ttf-mathematica <none>                   (no description available)
ii  xfonts-mathml   4                        Type1 Symbol font for MathML
pn  xprint          <none>                   (no description available)

Versions of packages xulrunner-1.9.1 depends on:
ii  libasound2              1.0.22-2         shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.30.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-4          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-9         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.8.10-4         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.4-1        GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.1-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.20.1-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhunspell-1.2-0       1.2.11-1         spell checker and morphological an
ii  libjpeg62               6b-16.1          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libmozjs2d              1.9.1.9-7        The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip
ii  libnspr4-0d             4.8.4-1          NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d              3.12.6-2         Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.0-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.43-1         PNG library - runtime
ii  libreadline6            6.1-1            GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsqlite3-0            3.6.23.1-2       SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstartup-notification 0.10-1           library for program launch feedbac
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.4-1          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.5-2        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

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