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
