Package: iceweasel Version: 10.0.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #585149
I found some time to take out of few items on my checklist. First, I found that two different user accounts on my desktop machine behaved differently depending on the website. This gave me some hope that old cruft in my configuration might be breaking things for me. So, I moved .mozilla out of the way and ran 'iceweasel' to create a new configuration directory. Now I find that I can sometimes play WebM video with sound. For example, this test site http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody/test.html defaults to this media file http://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/VfE.webm for me, and it plays with sound correctly. Unfortunately, bringing up the DebConf video http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2011/debconf11/high/836_Packaging_for_beginners.ogv in a tab still plays video with no sound. The Tools->Page Info->Media dialog lists the Type as "Video", and there is no Associated Text field shown. This is slightly different than the camendesign.com WebM video which works for me, which shows Type as "video/webm". The video at linux.com (mentioned in msg #46 above) still does not play: though it is a WebM video, it's Type comes up as "Video". If the linux.com pages were written to mark the video as "video/webm", I wonder if they would play on my system? So now I'm in a bind; all sound works on my system -- local software (incl. games and media players), websites using Flash, and even some sites hosting WebM video -- so it seems impossible that the Firefox/ Iceweasel code that initializes ALSA is broken. (I took a quick look at the source code, and I see that upstream has included an very old source copy of libsydneyaudio to provide ALSA support on Linux, so it is still possible that there is breakage there.) What a bummer. I'm going to try some packages that spawn external media players for video files, too see if that can be used as a workaround. DW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
