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10wattmindtrip

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Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 28

[SOLVED]OSSv4.1 and Firefox 3.5 video/audio tag

Was wondering if there is anyone else out there who is using OSS that has a problem where audio doesn't play in Firefox 3.5rc2 with html5's video tag.

I'm not sure how to get this working.

thanks

Last edited by 10wattmindtrip (2009-06-23 16:55:25)

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10wattmindtrip

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Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED]OSSv4.1 and Firefox 3.5 video/audio tag

Sorry, I figured it out. Here's how I did it:

I installed alsa-plugins
then after searching the OSS forums found a way to gain OSS audio out of ALSA only programs with this:
cat > /etc/asound.conf
pcm.!default {
  type oss
  device /dev/dsp
}

ctl.!default {
  type oss
  device /dev/mixer
}

Then hit CTRL+D and restart oss (or restart system): /etc/rc.d/oss stop - /etc/rc.d/oss start ..

Cheers.

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jarryson

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Registered: 2007-02-18

Posts: 298

Re: [SOLVED]OSSv4.1 and Firefox 3.5 video/audio tag

maybe a better way is to install libsalsa instead of alsa-libs.