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Old 01-22-2020, 09:08 AM   #1
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firefox 68.4.1 sound has stopped


I am running Slackware 14.2 and can no longer play music using Firefox, my preferred browser. Vivaldi and Chromium are working fine. Can someone suggest what happened?
 
Old 01-22-2020, 10:46 AM   #2
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There was an update for FF put out to the repos yesterday (68.4.2). Update via SlackPkg and then post back here if that updated FF works or not.
 
Old 01-22-2020, 11:01 AM   #3
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No difference. I am going to WQXR,org. There is a "listen now" button that should start streaming the current program. In Firefox it does nothing, but with Vivaldi or Chromium the streaming starts.
 
Old 01-22-2020, 11:12 AM   #4
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as firefox uses ffmpeg by default to handle multimedia, I would check if your ffmpeg is working correctly: you can try playing an mp3 (the wxqr.org stream is an mp3) with the commandline ffmpeg player ffplay.
 
Old 01-22-2020, 11:21 AM   #5
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Hello,

I don't have a Slackware 14.2 at hand but I just tried mozilla-firefox-68.4.2esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2 in my Slint and I hear the live stream https://www.wqxr.org/. So the issue should be with another component of your system as suggested by Matteo.

PS Thanks for the link. I like classical music including of course Mozart.

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Old 01-22-2020, 12:19 PM   #6
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I am now more than slightly confused. I could swear I used to listen to music with firefox, but it might have been on one of my other computers. When I did a "which ffmpeg" nothing was in the search path. Using a "locate" I found modified versions of ffmpeg under audacity, and the other browsers. Rather than creating a link to one of those, I went to SlackBuild, downloaded the source code for ffmpeg along with the ffmpeg.SlackBuild file, compiled and installed it. Firefox now works fine. I guess my question now is did Firefox used to include ffmpeg with it? Thank you everyone for all of your help.
 
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no, firefox never shipped an internal ffmpeg, but older versions of it (years ago) used gst-plugins-libav to handle mp3s and that is shipped with Slackware, could be that.
 
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Old 01-22-2020, 12:33 PM   #8
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Hello,

I don't have a Slackware 14.2/FF at hand but I just tried mozilla-firefox-68.4.2esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2 in my Slint and I hear the live stream https://www.wqxr.org/. So the issue should be with another component of your system as suggested by Matteo.

PS Thanks for the link. I like classical music including of course Mozart.

I do have Slackware64 14.2/FF 68.4.2ESR and am using AlienBob's ffmpeg-3.4.6-x86_64-1. I can also hear the music.


Oh, and yes, thanks for the link. I also enjoy Classical occasionally.
 
  


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