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trevog

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Registered: 2015-01-24

Posts: 4

No sound for HTML5 (e.g. Youtube)

HTML5 videos are playing, however there is no sound. The sound for everything else is working fine.
I've tried it with:
-alsa w/o Pulseaudio
-alsa w/ Pulsaudio
I've installed gstreamer, and I'm using firefox.
I saw some previous topics regarding this issue, but I haven't found a solution that works for me.
It seems like HTML5 audio is sending its output to the HDMI output and not to the Analog output, is there a way I can change this?

Last edited by trevog (2015-03-20 15:44:43)

nullified

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From: Massachusetts, USA

Registered: 2013-12-09

Posts: 468

Re: No sound for HTML5 (e.g. Youtube)

You probably already did this, but I had the same problem, no sound in html5 video w/ ALSA & PulseAudio and a reboot fixed it. Just throwing this out there to make sure you've covered your bases.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: No sound for HTML5 (e.g. Youtube)

Anything interesting in the logs, systemd's journal or in the terminal when starting firefox from the terminal?

gnox

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Registered: 2013-05-18

Posts: 90

Re: No sound for HTML5 (e.g. Youtube)

I had the same problem, it was because I have 2 snd_hda_intel , I just changed the order to the correct card in 
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
options snd_hda_intel index=1,0

I had to remove this also /home/<user>/.asoundrc

TheNineBaller

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Registered: 2014-12-03

Posts: 18

Re: No sound for HTML5 (e.g. Youtube)

I was also having this problem. Gnox's solution worked for me.

In addition if you are addressing your hardware directly in your alsa configuration with something like this it can create problems. Avoid addressing devices with type hw as that was my problem.

pcm.!default {
    type hw
    card 0 
    device 3