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derelict

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Registered: 2006-07-25

Posts: 81

OSSv4.1 and Firefox 3.5 and html5 video/audio tags

No sound plays when viewing the video examples here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/whatsnew/ or here http://www.dailymotion.com/openvideodemo

I have already read this post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=74614 and the wiki:http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OSS#ALSA_emulation. I'm trying to avoid installing the alsa-plugins package. Is there a way to enable oss support for firefox or xulrunner at compile time? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Last edited by derelict (2009-07-07 06:50:36)

droog

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Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 877

Re: OSSv4.1 and Firefox 3.5 and html5 video/audio tags

I built firefox-pgo from aur with oss4 instead of alsa, patch found here.
http://www.opensound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3199
i used the patch gentoo made out if it, linked in one of the last posts in that thread.

have to uninstall the old firefox before building without alsa if you try the pgo build.

have the package if you need it, built without dbus or alsa, but for athlon-xp only /edit, built against libjpeg7 too

Last edited by droog (2009-07-07 07:53:14)

Sharpeee

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-10-19

Posts: 59

Re: OSSv4.1 and Firefox 3.5 and html5 video/audio tags

That is awesome droog!
I installed firefox-pgo just as you said, and I now have sound in the html 5 examples.
The only thing is that firefox is extremely unstable when visiting those sites, and it still uses to much CPU for the videos to actually be watchable.

If you want smooth video and audio with html 5, I can recommend the latest midori (0.1.7-1 from extra). I've just tried it, and it works very nice!

toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 713

Re: OSSv4.1 and Firefox 3.5 and html5 video/audio tags

That is awesome droog!
I installed firefox-pgo just as you said, and I now have sound in the html 5 examples.
The only thing is that firefox is extremely unstable when visiting those sites, and it still uses to much CPU for the videos to actually be watchable.

If you want smooth video and audio with html 5, I can recommend the latest midori (0.1.7-1 from extra). I've just tried it, and it works very nice!

Wow you weren't kidding about the instability.  your first link had the audio breaking up and playing way behind the video, the dailymotion link didnt work at all for me.  on x86_64, with oss-mercurial, i used firefox-pgo-beta (with pgo disabled since that also doesnt build for me).

what package are you using for firefox?

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