I cannot hear some MP3 using Firefox browser

[rayos]

Hi. I'm using Firefox browser ESR 60.4.0esr (32-bit) provided by default in Debian Buster repository because the recent version does not work on my old PC.

In some places the only thing I can hear is two clicks, one at the beginning of the supposed hearing and another at the end, but in other sites it works fine.

For example, on this page I can hear them:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/en/dic ... lo?q=Hello

But on this one it does not work:

http://www.wordreference.com/es/transla ... word=Hello

In order to get an idea of ​​what may be happening I download the audio files into the hard drive. It sounds good with Audacious player, but with Firefox browser I can only listen the Cambridge ones, but never those of the WordReference.

I searched into the source code of the pages and downloaded the files:

This one sounds good:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/en/med ... /hello.mp3 (with sound)

This one can not be heard:

http://www.wordreference.com/audio/en/u ... 042667.mp3 (without sound)

I consulted with "file" command and this is what I got:

$ file Cambridge.mp3

Cambridge.mp3: Audio file with ID3 version 2.4.0, contains: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 56 kbps, 44.1 kHz, Monaural

$ file WordReference.mp3

WordReference.mp3: Audio file with ID3 version 2.4.0, contains: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v2, 56 kbps, 22.05 kHz, Stereo

The only thing I notice is that those who can be heard are "Monaural" and those who can not be heard are "Stereo".


Thanks and best regards.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

But on this one it does not work:

http://www.wordreference.com/es/transla ... word=Hello

That plays fine on my Debian buster system.

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empty@shinken:~ $ apt policy firefox-esr
firefox-esr:
  Installed: 60.4.0esr-1
  Candidate: 60.4.0esr-1
  Version table:
 *** 60.4.0esr-1 500
        500 https://cdn-aws.deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
empty@shinken:~ $

Are you using PulseAudio?

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pgrep -a pulse

I don't actually need PA in my dwm desktop but I can't think of anything else to check

[stevepusser]

Do you have libavcodec58 or libavcodec-extra58 installed?