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firefox and no audio
firefox and no audio
running debian sid. noticed that recently firefox 60.3.0esr (64-bit) [the download from the mozilla site not the deb package] has stopped playing the audio in videos (youtube, cnn, bbc, pornhub etc)
what can i check to see why this happened when the audio was previously playing?
i tried another browser and it didn't have the same issue.
what can i check to see why this happened when the audio was previously playing?
i tried another browser and it didn't have the same issue.
Last edited by milomak on 2019-02-03 21:30, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: firefox and no audio
Are you running pulseaudio?
If not, have you installed the apulse package? That might get it working.
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pgrep -a pulse
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Re: firefox and no audio
i tried running in safe mode and loading a youtube video
$ pgrep -a pulse
$ pgrep -a pulse
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1519 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
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Re: firefox and no audio
Does sound work otherwise?
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speaker-test --nloops 1
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Re: firefox and no audio
oh yes. as i say on chrome the audio on the videos works with no problem
although what you posted shows a problem
$ speaker-test --nloops 1
although what you posted shows a problem
$ speaker-test --nloops 1
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speaker-test 1.1.7
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1099:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy
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Re: firefox and no audio
firefox now requires pulse since version 51 release.
probably due to mozilla having more windows users.
pulse is ( for lack of a better description ) just a wrapper that runs on top of a backend, such as alsa.
pulse vs apulse
one or the other, not both afaict, apulse just fools firefox, that firefox sees pulse requirements for audio without the bloat of pulse. see the apulse package description for a more a accurate explaination.
firefox nightly ver 52
firefox stable ver 51
waterfox 56.2.5
chromium
run audio without pulse on linux. There are probably others
probably due to mozilla having more windows users.
pulse is ( for lack of a better description ) just a wrapper that runs on top of a backend, such as alsa.
pulse vs apulse
one or the other, not both afaict, apulse just fools firefox, that firefox sees pulse requirements for audio without the bloat of pulse. see the apulse package description for a more a accurate explaination.
firefox nightly ver 52
firefox stable ver 51
waterfox 56.2.5
chromium
run audio without pulse on linux. There are probably others
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Re: firefox and no audio
yeah i ran pavucontrol and saw that in playback AudioIPC Server had the volume at zero.
which is strange as i am pretty sure i didn't do that
which is strange as i am pretty sure i didn't do that
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Re: [solved] firefox and no audio
something else has clearly happened as in pavucontrol i can see that audio is meant to be playing but nothing is actually playing. this is after a dist-upgrade i did
$ dpkg -l | grep pulseaudio
$ dpkg -l | grep pulseaudio
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ii gir1.2-cvc-1.0 3.8.1-2 amd64 Introspection data for Cinnamon pulseaudio abstraction
ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.14.4-1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii libcvc0:amd64 3.8.1-2 amd64 Cinnamon pulseaudio abstraction library
ii pulseaudio 12.2-3 amd64 PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-utils 12.2-3 amd64 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
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Re: [solved] firefox and no audio
I think pavucontrol has per-application volume settings, is there a separate control for Firefox?milomak wrote:i can see that audio is meant to be playing
FWIW, I don't need PulseAudio for sound in Firefox (ESR) in my Debian buster system, despite assurances to the contrary elsewhere in this thread.
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