For some reason, Firefox now can’t seem to play any sounds. Two days ago I was streaming XMRadio all day just fine, and then when I booted up this morning…nothing. There is no sound from YouTube as well, but all video’s themselves do play. I tried under Chrome and everything works just fine. As a point of clarification, the output I am referencing are the speakers that are plugged into the onboard sound. I have followed the suggestions on the Firefox help page with no luck
I don’t remember seeing where there was an update the other that would have triggered this behavior, but I can’t say for sure…
[2022-11-09T17:03:14Z ERROR mp4parse] Found 2 nul bytes in “\u{0}\u{0}”
[2022-11-09T17:03:14Z ERROR mp4parse] Found 2 nul bytes in “\u{0}\u{0}”
[2022-11-09T17:03:14Z ERROR mp4parse] Found 2 nul bytes in “\u{0}\u{0}”
[2022-11-09T17:03:14Z ERROR mp4parse] Found 2 nul bytes in “\u{0}\u{0}”
apulse /run/media/maketopsite/FFFFFF/data/tmp/firefox/firefox --profile .mozilla/firefox/ccccc.default/
[GFX1-]: glxtest: VA-API test failed: failed to initialise VAAPI connection.
[2022-11-09T18:39:48Z ERROR mp4parse] Found 2 nul bytes in "\0\0"
[2022-11-09T18:39:48Z ERROR mp4parse] Found 2 nul bytes in "\0\0"
[2022-11-09T18:39:48Z ERROR mp4parse] Found 2 nul bytes in "\0\0"
[2022-11-09T18:39:48Z ERROR mp4parse] Found 2 nul bytes in "\0\0"
(apulse because I don’t have pulseaudio installed)
No. When I do run it, I see Firefox in the list, but the slider bar is dimmed out like it isn’t receiving and data from the application. I say that because right now, Chrome is playing music, and it has the slider bar lit up. Does that make sense?
Tried that with no luck. If I had to guess, I would say that Firefox is making a connection to the sound system itself, but it just isn’t producing any sound. Guess I will have to wait for the next Firefox build to see if that fixes it, but I don’t have much hope because I don’t believe Firefox was updated to trigger this.
If it’s only firefox having a problem with your audio, then your audio looks good.
Where did you got your firefox because firefox here is working great in sounds.
What if you rename your /home/user/.mozilla/firefox and try to run firefox again
I am using Firefox right from the openSUSE repos. I just tried the renaming of the directory with the same results.
What is weird is that one day it was working just fine and the next…nothing. It’s like I mistakenly turned something off, but I just don’t know what that could be.
Open Firefox and play content that should play sound,
Click the volume icon in the Windows taskbar.
Click Mixer. The Volume Mixer window will appear.
Make sure the slider for Mozilla Firefox is not muted or at the bottom.
Just received an update to Firefox and still have no sound. Is there some global setting in either Firefox or KDE that kills all sounds for that particular app?
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Before I install ffmpeg-4, is this going to cause any issues? I can’t seem to find the difference between the two packages.