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

Brian Paterni bpaterni at gmail.com
Wed May 22 00:47:24 UTC 2013


Hi

I'm hit by this bug as well in version 17.0.6esr-1 of iceweasel. The
problem for me is that I cannot easily go without an asound
configuration since audio is forwarded to a receiver via optical S/PDIF:

$ cat /etc/asound.conf
# default to optical/digital
pcm.!default iec958

If I comment out the line above to have audio passed to the system
default (analog out), then html5 audio works just fine.

This leads me to believe the problem is somewhere in iceweasel/firefox
audio source code since all other applications are able to conform to
the system-wide asound.conf above.

That, or the way I'm configuring alsa to default to optical out may be
wrong. The alsa wiki mentions asound.conf should not be necessary, but
I'm not sure how else to tell the system to default to a different
output attached to the same audio chip:

from http://alsa.opensrc.org/.asoundrc

Neither .asoundrc or /etc/asound.conf is normally required. You should
be able to play and record sound without either (assuming your mic and
speakers are hooked up properly). If your system won't work without one,
and you are running the most current version of ALSA, you probably
should file a bug report.



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