Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I do have it installed. I also tried to install `libavcodec-extra` at >> some point (when I saw that `mp4a-latm` 🙂), but it made no difference >> of course. > You do not have AAC in the list of supported codecs and I am unsure if it is > due to alsa backend or due to a missed package (libfdk-aa

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 15/08/2024 20:51, Stefan Monnier wrote: I do have it installed. I also tried to install `libavcodec-extra` at some point (when I saw that `mp4a-latm` 🙂), but it made no difference of course. You do not have AAC in the list of supported codecs and I am unsure if it is due to alsa backend o

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 10:21:01AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I have not found the real source of the problem, It's a browser, after all ;-D > but I have found out why it worked on other machines and not on this one: \o/ > some months > (years?) ago I made this i386 machine use `firefox-esr

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have not found the real source of the problem, but I have found out why it worked on other machines and not on this one: some months (years?) ago I made this i386 machine use `firefox-esr:amd64` because Firefox tabs kept crashing (even for fairly simple pages). [ I've been using the i386 version

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If you have libavcodec installed (from "Recommends") then it might be some > testing issue. There is no problem in bookworm. I do have it installed. I also tried to install `libavcodec-extra` at some point (when I saw that `mp4a-latm` 🙂), but it made no difference of course. > Firefox exposes

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I have no idea what sandbox settings you're referring to. >> How/where can I find those to "tinker" with? > [1a] also: about:config -> security.sandbox.* Hmm... I set both `security.sandbox.socket.process.level` and `security.sandbox.content.level` to 0 as well as `media.cubeb.sandbox` to false

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 15/08/2024 18:46, Stefan Monnier wrote: Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm It relies on non-free AAC codec that you likely do not have installed. That's a side-issue: the web page I pointed to has various videos in various formats and none of them work (hence the error messages ment

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 07:46:19AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm > > It relies on non-free AAC codec that you likely do not have installed. > > That's a side-issue: the web page I pointed to has various videos in > various formats and none of them wor

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 07:43:16AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Aha -- so you are using pipewire's pulseaudio emulation? > > Yes. > > > Search engineering (hah) turns up some noises like this [1] which at > > least suggest to tinker with sandbox settings. They might have painted > > themselve

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm > It relies on non-free AAC codec that you likely do not have installed. That's a side-issue: the web page I pointed to has various videos in various formats and none of them work (hence the error messages mentioning other "decoder not found" mime type

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Aha -- so you are using pipewire's pulseaudio emulation? Yes. > Search engineering (hah) turns up some noises like this [1] which at > least suggest to tinker with sandbox settings. They might have painted > themselves again into a corner by not allowing some processes to see > some paths in th

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-14 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 09:10:18AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 15/08/2024 02:32, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm > > It relies on non-free AAC codec that you likely do not have installed. > Perhaps chromium has a built-in implementation. Max, you rock. Che

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-14 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 03:32:31PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I have a machine here running a freshly updated and rebooted Debian > testing where I can't get Firefox (more specifically `firefox-esr`) to > use audio. E.g. I go to > > https://tekeye.uk/html/html5-video-test-page > > and no

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-14 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 03:47:33PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Stefan Monnier composed on 2024-08-14 15:32 (UTC-0400): > > > I have a machine here running a freshly updated and rebooted Debian > > testing where I can't get Firefox (more specifically `firefox-esr`) to > > use audio. > > Check if i

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-14 Thread Max Nikulin
On 15/08/2024 02:32, Stefan Monnier wrote: Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm It relies on non-free AAC codec that you likely do not have installed. Perhaps chromium has a built-in implementation.

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-14 Thread songbird
Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> I have a machine here running a freshly updated and rebooted Debian >>> testing where I can't get Firefox (more specifically `firefox-esr`) to >>> use audio. i'm running the unstable firefox (otherwise the rest is testing) with no issues that i've noticed so far on aud

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I have a machine here running a freshly updated and rebooted Debian >> testing where I can't get Firefox (more specifically `firefox-esr`) to >> use audio. > > Check if installing apulse helps. It's supposed to make obstinate apps like > Firefox act as though pulseaudio is installed, dead techno

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-14 Thread Felix Miata
Stefan Monnier composed on 2024-08-14 15:32 (UTC-0400): > I have a machine here running a freshly updated and rebooted Debian > testing where I can't get Firefox (more specifically `firefox-esr`) to > use audio. Check if installing apulse helps. It's supposed to make obstinate apps like Firefox a