> On Apr 27, 2015, at 3:24, Stroller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0:
>>
>> USE="bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags
>> -custom-optimization -debug -gstreamer -hardened (-pgo) -pulseaudio
>> (-selinux) -system-cairo -system-icu -system-jpeg -system-libvpx
>> -system-sqlite {-test} -wifi"
>
> `euses system-libvpx` says "use the system-wide media-libs/libvpx" and if we
> look up media-libs/libvpx then its description explains that its about the
> WebM VP8 codec. It would be better if it explained that this is a _video_
> codec, but Gentoo's USE flag and package descriptions have always been
> rubbish.
>
> I would perhaps try rebuilding with USE=system-libvpx and checking the
> https://www.youtube.com/html5 page again.
>
> Personally, I would probably also try a later version of Firefox.
>
> I appreciate that 31.x is the latest stable version, but I doubt newer
> versions are actually unstable in any way, and if I google "youtube html5
> firefox" I find that "Google will enforce the use of HTML5 video on YouTube
> for all Firefox users who use Firefox 33 or newer", "FYI: Firefox 35 uses the
> HTML5 video player in Youtube by default" and "Firefox 37 Released With
> Native HTML5 YouTube Playback"
A little bit OT, but does anyone know how to satisfy Firefox's need for audio
device. If I have no asound.conf Firefox will use hw0,0 for audio output. If I
set asound to:
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
device 0
}
ctl.!default {
type control
card 0
device 0
}
Sorry. Wrote this from memory so there might be a typo somewhere. With these
settings Firefox don't playback anything... Other applications and flash plugin
works perfectly.
How could I get firefox to use hw0,3 or hw1,3 for HTML5 audio playback?
--
-Matti
