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scwalla

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Registered: 2011-06-01

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[SOLVED] Chromium does not play some MP3 files.

Chromium fails to play some MP3 files.  They appear to buffer and play but there is no sound.  Here is an example:

  http://bostonzen.org/wp-content/uploads … -09-22.mp3 does not play
  http://bostonzen.org/wp-content/uploads … Spiral.mp3 plays fine.

Both files play fine in Firefox and Google Chrome.  Is there a way to add missing codecs to chromium or should I use the google-chrome package from AUR?

Last edited by scwalla (2013-06-07 22:47:04)

axelectrik

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Registered: 2012-01-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Chromium does not play some MP3 files.

Are you sure is not a pulseaudio issue?
Firefox and chrome use the same plugins than chromium, also I use chromium and I din't have any problem opening.
Besides, it buffers and "play" but maybe is a sound issue

scwalla

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Re: [SOLVED] Chromium does not play some MP3 files.

I do not have pulseaudio installed.  If this is a sound issue how would some mp3 files work but not others?  I have tried the same files many times and the results are perfectly consistent.

I have now installed google-chrome package from AUR which works fine, but I would rather stick with chromium.

axelectrik

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Re: [SOLVED] Chromium does not play some MP3 files.

Do you have all the codecs installed?
I think chromium uses gstreamer, this is weird

scwalla

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Re: [SOLVED] Chromium does not play some MP3 files.

Yes, I have gstreamer good, bad, ugly, ffmpeg and all the plugins.

I decided to try installing pulseaudio.  It turns out you were in fact correct all my mp3 files now play correctly.  Very strange!  thanks for your help axelectrik.

Last edited by scwalla (2013-06-07 22:44:12)

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] Chromium does not play some MP3 files.

Both of the files above work for me with chromium from the repos (which doesn't use gstreamer for anything by the way) and dwb using gstreamer.

scwalla

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Re: [SOLVED] Chromium does not play some MP3 files.

@skottish Do you have pulseaudio installed?

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] Chromium does not play some MP3 files.

@skottish Do you have pulseaudio installed?

libpulse was installed as a dependency, but I don't have pulseaudio installed.

axelectrik

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Re: [SOLVED] Chromium does not play some MP3 files.

Great, I also tried not to use pulseaudio but eventually some application request it :S