No sound on chromium

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Hello, people, my configuration is

openSUSE 13.1, 64 bits,
Chromium 37.0.2062.94 (290621) (64-bit)
chromium-ffmpeg 38.0.21.25 from packman
KDE 4.11.5
pulseaudio 4.0.git

Selecting any video content on chromium (youtube or vimeo, is the same), the browser load it all before starting to play (firefox starts playback while loading), but when the video finally starts there is no sound (firefox works without problems, but it uses flash). Volume level in kmix for chromium is Ok. http://www.youtube.com/html5 shows that all codecs are available. chromium-pepper-flash is installed, but I cannot find a way to tell youtube to use flash instead of html5.

This started some weeks ago, before that, sound was not a problem. Any idea?

Thanks

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Are you using the gstreamer or vlc backend? Can you play mp3s, for example?

Try to open Kmix and the pulseaudio-mixer. Can you see Chromium there? Maybe the soundlevel for Chromium has been reduced to zero.

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Thanks for your answer, but as I’d said on the first message, only chromium had problems and sound level on kmix are Ok. And I said “had” because today arrived an update for both, chromium (now at version 38) and chromium-ffmpeg and now everything is working again.

It seems that chromium goes like that, at least for me: it works for a time, them a release screw something, then some weeks/months later the problem is fixed (last year the problem was with the spell checker).

Anyway, everything is working now. :slight_smile:

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The issue was caused by the version mismatch I’d say:

The problem is that when chromium is updated, it takes about a week until an update is released in the update repo, but Packman does have the updated version immediately.

If you want to prevent that problem in the future, better add the network:chromium repo and install chromium from there.
openSUSE Software (Click on “Show unstable packages”)

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Thanks! I’ll try with that repo.