On Sunday 17 July 2016 11:29:14 Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 07/17/2016 10:50 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Since I upgraded firefox recently I've lost sound from the BBC radio
> > iplayer [1]. It loads the initial page but never returns from
> > "Loading..." Remembering the news item about libav and ffmpeg I searched
> > for corresponding USE flags against firefox but found neither.
> >
> > Has anyone else come across this? I didn't notice what was happening at
> > first because I was tied up in knots with KDE-5. For the moment I'm going
> > back to 45.2.0.
> >
> > [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_three
>
> I had this problem when I changed firefox to use chrome-binary-plugins.
> Are you using pulseaudio?
>
> In my case the plugin was muted, I went into pulse volume control and
> found it. (This was after about 20 minutes of scratching my head
> wondering why everything but firefox worked.)
No, it isn't audio failing, it's firefox not completing the connection with
the server.
No, I'm not using pulseaudio.
--
Rgds
Peter
