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Arm-the-Homeless

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 273

Firefox HTML 5 with OSS

HTML 5 audio (<video> + <audio>) will not work in Firefox. I'm using firefox-nightly from the AUR along with xulrunner-oss from the AUR.
Yet when I try to view Dailymotion's demo video, the video works but the sound doesn't. When I try YouTube's demo video, neither work.

The volume for Firefox is turned up in the OSSXMix settings and is turned up in the video. Still nothing.

toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 713

Re: Firefox HTML 5 with OSS

since you're using nightly from aur, try one of the pgo builds (firefox-pgo-minefield for nightly type, or firefox-pgo-beta for 3.6).  you can build either with or without pgo, and they patch for better oss support in firefox. 

also check out some of the posts in the pgo-thread which might give you some ideas.

html 5 video is still very buggy with linux/firefox from my experience.  some pages work well, some dont work at all.

Last edited by toxygen (2010-01-16 18:21:00)

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