I discovered this problem when trying to use the new BBC Concert Sound Taster. Their page says:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/projects/radio-3-concert-sound "We have noticed that Firefox binaries distributed by some flavours of Linux are missing a compilation flag required to enable playback of our FLAC stream. If you are having no luck getting the stream to play on your chosen platform, please try downloading an official Mozilla build which we have verified works correctly. More information is available in this Bugzilla ticket: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336057 " Also using 52.0.2 (64-bit) on Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu 16.04) ** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #1336057 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336057 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1681107 Title: 52.0.2 on ubuntu 16.04 has been built without that Rust mp4 demuxer enabled Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Absence of the Rust mp4 demuxer (which is present on the official Mozilla build) means that streams containing flac audio data cannot be accessed. This is of particular importance to me and others, as the BBC have started to stream a lossless version of the live Radio 3. lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS Release: 16.04 apt-cache policy firefox firefox: Installed: 52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Candidate: 52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Version table: *** 52.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1681107/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
