native HTML5 video support in Firefox

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My Firefox 6.02 fails to play native HTML5 sound. I tried it on this video: HTML5 Video Player | VideoJS

Works fine in Windows, natively played by Firefox (right clicking shows the HTML5 video dialog). In Linux Firefox the video plays OK, but without sound. I stripped my Firefox from other media plug-ins, so there is no conflict possible. How to enable native sound? Or is this a bug I should report?

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I just tried it. Works great. The sound is impressive. This is 64 bit. I’ll try on a 32 bit system shortly.

Yes, worked well on a 32 bit system also.

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My Firefox 6.02 fails to play native HTML5 sound. I tried it on this video: HTML5 Video Player | VideoJS

Works fine in Windows, natively played by Firefox (right clicking shows the HTML5 video dialog). In Linux Firefox the video plays OK, but without sound. I stripped my Firefox from other media plug-ins, so there is no conflict possible. How to enable native sound? Or is this a bug I should report?

So this plays OK on my main system, but it brings to question about your audio setup:

  1. What kind of audio chipset/sound card do your have? (Mine is a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi card for instance)
  2. How are you connected to your speakers (I actually use Optical out to a Receiver)
  3. Does your computer have more than one audio device? (Mine has two, Creative and nVIDIA)
  4. What openSUSE version do you use and what is your sound server? (I use openSUSE 11.4, 64 bit and PulseAudio)
  5. Can you play Video’s with sound from iTunes? (Link: iTunes Movie Trailers, I can play them on my main system fine, but my HTPC which I play movies on has no sound there)

I have a program that can be used in checking your multimedia setup you can find here: MMCHECK - Version 2.35 - Check Your Multimedia in 16 Steps - Bash Script File - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

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Hi
Audio/video works fine here for me on 6.0.2 Gnome 3.0, also html5
demos. I would say a missing codec.

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I confirm it works for me also :smiley:

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It’s Opensuse 11.4 64 KDE4 with pulse audio and Xine video backend and the latest Firefox 6.02. All other audio is working on my system. Flash player, Amarok, Skype and all other media players work, except the native HTML5 video players of Firefox and Google Chrome.

I see nowhere settings that could connect Firefox to this pulseaudio or plain ALSA, like you would have in other applications. The question is, what is Firefox using and is there a way to manipulate it, because apparently the default is not working for me.

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With mmcheck is there something in particular I should check? I changed one xine package that was still from the OpenSuse repo, but that should not affect it.

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With mmcheck is there something in particular I should check? I changed one xine package that was still from the OpenSuse repo, but that should not affect it.

Well, all tests in mmcheck should be considered and any that do not match is suspect. Further, I ask why you have changed the backend to Xine? What does it do with GStreamer? Do you have more than one audio device? A visit to YaST / Hardware /Sound would indicate if this might be true. It is suggested that you install the GNOME PulseAudio Volume Control pavucontrol which can be more helpful in setting up your audio output. I have found the XFCE xfce4-mixer to work and provide ALSA like controls that also work with PulseAudio.

Thank You,

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I have the same problem. The silence since September seem to indicate that there is no hope to recover sound in KDE environment? Is FF only Gnome compatible?

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comunica2 I use Firefox in KDE just fine and so no, its not just for Gnome. I might suggest you post more info on your hardware.

Thank You,