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

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 07:22:53AM -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
> On 02/10/2012 02:08 AM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:37:52PM -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
> >>I'm also finding that OGV video will play without sound; picture is
> >>fine, but cannot hear anything -- with this, for example:
> >>
> >>http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2011/debconf11/high/836_Packaging_for_beginners.ogv
> >>
> >>Sound is otherwise working fine on my system:  I can play a music on
> >>'xine' and have a YouTube video open in another tab while the above
> >>OGV video is playing, and sound works everywhere except in the OGV
> >>tab.
> >
> >Sound works for me on that url. Are you using a dsp wrapper?
> 
> No wrapper, though 'alsa-oss' package is installed.  See output in
> message #46 of this bug report:
> 
>     $ cat /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc
>     # which /dev/dsp wrapper to use
>     ICEWEASEL_DSP="none"
> 
> May I ask if sound is working for you with the linux.com video
> mentioned in message #46?

It is working for me.

Mike