Bug#585149: Seems to have to do with asoundrc?

[Arnout Engelen]

Hi,

I was facing an issue that seemed similar. Indeed 

    http://videos.mozilla.org/firefox/3.5/meet/meet.ogv

would play silently. After some fiddling I noticed that removing ~/.asoundrc
fixes the issue for me. This is kind of surprising, because that file only
contained one line:

  pcm.!default hw:0

But removing it definitely makes the problem go away. My original problem, 
silent coursera.org lectures, was also fixed by this change.

This problem does not appear to be entirely Iceweasel-specific: in Chromium,
audio would initially work, but seeking in the video would cause the audio to
drop out (only to return after restarting the browser). Removing ~/.asoundrc
also fixes that issue.


Kind regards,

Arnout