Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> [16-01-11 18:20]: > > > On Mon, 11 January 2016, at 3:02 p.m., meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > When starting Firefox with a clean new Profile with no > > Addon.s added, it is possible to /watch/ (watch != hear) > > a HTML5 video played from the YouTube site. But there is > > nothing to hear... > > > > The audio system of my Gentoo Box seems ok, since playing > > a video with mpv from the commandline let me watch > > and hear it. > > > > The YouTube-Page, which checks Firefox for the availability of > > HTML5 video cpapabilities says "OK! GO!" > > Do these things work: > > 1. Other audio in your browser (e.g. Vocaroo, SoundCloud &c.) > > 2. Other HTML5 video sites. (I don't know which are HTML5 and which are > flash, these days, so I'd try Vimeo, the BBC, newspapers sites, Pornhub, > Redtube). > > Just to be clear: are you sure it's HTML5 video you're watching on YouTube? > How do you know? Is no flash player installed? > > Stroller. > >
Hi Stroller, more detailed: I created a new profile and added some not related addons. Then I checked some settings under about:config and surfed to check-page for html5 by Google/Youtube: Everything is fine. Then I tried to watch/hear a video on YouTube: WATCH: OK HEAR : FAILED dmesg shows nothing the commandline, from where I started firefox shows nothing related too. A right click onto the running video shows setting for the HTML5 player of firefox. Then I installed the addon "Flash for YouTube" (similiar) and started the same Video: Viola! WATCH: OK HEAR : OK A right click onto the running video display "Adobe Flash Player". Other video sites: VIMEO: Same situation BBC: blocked because I am not in the UK Pornhub, Redtube: Not tested (for obvious reasons) Dailymotion: Went crazy...total confusion of the site Vocaroo: not tested (privacy concerns) Bandcamp: The site does not react nicely (playback does not start at all) Since the HTML5-player starts, when I disable Flash and the flash format is not playable with a HTML5-player at all (I get a video running ... only the sound is missing) I am quite sure, that it is HTML5. The test page by Google/Youtube also states that my Firefox is "HTML5 ready/capable". Oh, how I like music videos without sound.... ;) Best regards, Meino
