Firefox still without sound

[Christian Baer]

Hey everyone!

I just updated Firefox to the current 46.0.1 and I am still not getting any
sound out of it (just tested youtube). With the update several other packages
were updated too (including alsa), so it seems as if there has been some
progress in terms of sound.

Using $SEARCHENGINE I could quickly see, that Firefox without sound after an
update under FreeBSD is a (well) known issue. Strangely enough there does not
really seem to be a solution out there that is easy to implement or put into
the ports/packages.

What's going on there? Or have I just missed the memo about Firefox and the
sound output?

Best regards,
Chris

[Warren Block]

Post by Christian Baer
Hey everyone!
I just updated Firefox to the current 46.0.1 and I am still not getting any
sound out of it (just tested youtube). With the update several other packages
were updated too (including alsa), so it seems as if there has been some
progress in terms of sound.
Using $SEARCHENGINE I could quickly see, that Firefox without sound after an
update under FreeBSD is a (well) known issue. Strangely enough there does not
really seem to be a solution out there that is easy to implement or put into
the ports/packages.
What's going on there? Or have I just missed the memo about Firefox and the
sound output?

It's working here on 10-stable. I have always enabled the ALSA option
and disabled PULSEAUDIO, which might have something to do with it.

[Christian Baer]

On Wed, 25 May 2016 07:51:26 -0600 (MDT)

Post by Warren Block
It's working here on 10-stable. I have always enabled the ALSA
option and disabled PULSEAUDIO, which might have something to do with
it.

Using FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p3 amd64 here.

However, I am not currently tracking the STABLE branch, nor did I
install Firebox (or anything else for that matter) via the ports. I
guess I got lazy. :-) Compiling things like Firefox takes forever (even
on a relatively fast machine) and installs a truckload of libs that are
only required at compile time (und thus can be removed after that).

Is the choice between ALSA and PULSE one that can be made at runtime (I
have not found it yet) or is it one that must be made before compiling?

Best,
Chris

[Matthias Apitz]

Post by Christian Baer
On Wed, 25 May 2016 07:51:26 -0600 (MDT)

Post by Warren Block
It's working here on 10-stable. I have always enabled the ALSA
option and disabled PULSEAUDIO, which might have something to do with
it.

Using FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p3 amd64 here.
However, I am not currently tracking the STABLE branch, nor did I
install Firebox (or anything else for that matter) via the ports. I
guess I got lazy. :-) Compiling things like Firefox takes forever (even
on a relatively fast machine) and installs a truckload of libs that are
only required at compile time (und thus can be removed after that).
Is the choice between ALSA and PULSE one that can be made at runtime (I
have not found it yet) or is it one that must be made before compiling?

(I have sent this to the list, but it does not made it through)


I have installed all ports from r414411 (1st of May 2016), which
brings firefox-46.0_2,1. Sound is fine at least with YT and HTML5.
Do you have pulseaudio installed? If so, read through
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2016-April/016823.html
This must be configured correctly or just removed.

matthias

[Matthias Apitz]

Post by Christian Baer
Hey everyone!
I just updated Firefox to the current 46.0.1 and I am still not getting any
sound out of it (just tested youtube). With the update several other packages
were updated too (including alsa), so it seems as if there has been some
progress in terms of sound.
Using $SEARCHENGINE I could quickly see, that Firefox without sound after an
update under FreeBSD is a (well) known issue. Strangely enough there does not
really seem to be a solution out there that is easy to implement or put into
the ports/packages.
What's going on there? Or have I just missed the memo about Firefox and the
sound output?

I have installed all ports from r414411 (1st of May 2016), which
brings firefox-46.0_2,1. Sound is fine at least with YT and HTML5.
Do you have pulseaudio installed? If so, read through
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2016-April/016823.html
This must be configured correctly or just removed.

matthias