Package: iceweasel Version: 10.0-2 Followup-For: Bug #585149
I am experiencing the same difficulties with Sid. I tried playing a video at linux.com, on this page for example: http://video.linux.com/videos and all of the videos play fine except for lack of sound. If I choose a particular video, say http://video.linux.com/videos/allison-randal-fallacy-of-the-zero-sum-game then I can get more info from Iceweasel by clicking Tools -> Page Info, then the Media tab. I can scroll down, looking for type "Video" until I find this http://video.linux.com/media/com_lfvideos/videos/linuxcon-vancouver-day-3-1-1322879147/Day3-1.webm The info for Location, Type ("video/webm"), Size, and Dimensions looks fine, but the entry for Associated Text has this: Sorry, your browser can't play this video I Googled a bit, and found a page http://www.chipwreck.de/blog/2010/03/01/html-5-video-dom-attributes-and-events which lists some error codes related to HTML5 Error codes If an error occured, you can read the error code to react — these error codes are currently supported: MEDIA_ERR_ABORTED (1) User aborted video playback MEDIA_ERR_NETWORK (2) Network error (could not read the stream) MEDIA_ERR_DECODE (3) Decoding error, video is broken or the codec makes problems MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED (4) The format is not supported There is a block of example code which explains why Google found this page: var myvid = document.getElementById('vid'); if (myvid.error) { switch (myvid.error.code) { [...] case MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED: alert("Sorry, your browser can't play this video."); break; } } I have been able to play WebM on other sites, having tested it by searching for HTML5 video test pages. At first I thought they were NOT working, until I realized that the volume level was defaulting to 0; when I right-clicked and made the controls visible, then slid the volume up, sound was fine. The problem with the linux.com videos is not the volume control, though, as would seem apparent from the error message printed by the Page Info -> Media dialog window; adjusting the volume has no effect. I see that you have asked folks for their system-wide 'iceweaselrc' contents; here is mine $ cat /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc # which /dev/dsp wrapper to use ICEWEASEL_DSP="none" I only use ALSA for my sound (no PulseAudio or other sound daemon), though I do have 'alsa-oss' installed. My understanding was that Firefox/Iceweasel moved its default sound system to ALSA long ago. I doubt that it is significant, but I seem to have "dsp" and "dsp1" devices, but no "dsp0": $ ls -d /dev/dsp* /dev/dsp /dev/dsp1 Seems strange that linux.com results in no sound on Debian Iceweasel, but the HTML5 test pages work fine. HTH, Dave W. -- Package-specific info: -- Extensions information Name: Default themefalse Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} Status: enabled Name: DownThemAll! extensionfalse -- Addons package information -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.4-2+dwlocal1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages iceweasel depends on: ii debianutils 4.2.1 ii fontconfig 2.8.0-3.1 ii libc6 2.13-26 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.24.0-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-6 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.9-1 ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.9-1 ii libstdc++6 4.6.2-12 ii procps 1:3.3.2-3 ii xulrunner-10.0 10.0-2 iceweasel recommends no packages. Versions of packages iceweasel suggests: ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.10+dfsg~beta1-2 ii mozplugger <none> ii ttf-lyx 2.0.2-1 ii ttf-mathematica4.1 <none> ii xfonts-mathml 4 Versions of packages xulrunner-10.0 depends on: ii libasound2 1.0.24.1-4 ii libatk1.0-0 2.2.0-2 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-1 ii libc6 2.13-26 ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6.2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.16-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.98-1 ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.16-stable-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-3.1 ii libfreetype6 2.4.8-1 ii libgcc1 1:4.6.2-12 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.24.0-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-6 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.9-1 ii libhunspell-1.3-0 1.3.2-4 ii libjpeg8 8d-1 ii libmozjs10d 10.0-2 ii libnotify4 0.7.4-1 ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.9-1 ii libnss3-1d 3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1 ii libpango1.0-0 1.29.4-2 ii libpixman-1-0 0.24.2-1 ii libreadline6 6.2-8 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.9-3 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-1 ii libstdc++6 4.6.2-12 ii libvpx1 1.0.0-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-4 ii libxext6 2:1.3.0-3 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-2 ii libxt6 1:1.1.1-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 Versions of packages xulrunner-10.0 suggests: ii libcanberra0 0.28-3 ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.5-2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org