Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> writes: > On 09/09/2009 10:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 01:49:15 Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I've installed mplayer and am able to play back online vidoes like >>> quicktime. However, I get no sound. >>> >>> Playing the same file retrieved from browser cache, directly with >>> mplayer, works with sound. >>> >>> What do I need to do with firefox to get the sound of videos? >> >> <wild shot in the dark here> >> >> Was firefox built with USE=alsa? > > Doesn't matter. It's the plugin that plays the sound, not Firefox (I > know because I have Firefox without the alsa USE flag and it works > OK.)
I did Nikos suggestion but also discovered I hadn't relogged in the user after adding user to audio group. Once I did both it worked but not sure if both were needed. The user in audio part is a necessity for sure... but not sure the changes on right click in a running firefox playback is. What I mean is, I'm not sure if it was already right. The right click context menu preferences/play appears to be the only setting that would really matter. [audio output] [drop dn menu] The drop down offers a number of choices, alsa being one of them. I think it was blank when I first looked. It seems to work with either being blank or `alsa' inserted.
