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BROWSER sound issue

#1 Post by Subito Piano »

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I DO have sound in my laptop, i.e., i can play music thru deadbeef, whatever. However browsers stopped playing sound some time ago. YouTube videos will have video by no audio. When I open an mp3 or ogg file in my browser, the indicator moves (i.e., i can see the music is playing) but no sound. I've gotten rid of extra sound packages i added plus anything else lately added that i don't need, ripped out ~/.asoundrc, and restarted with addons- disabled, no go. This condition holds true of both PaleMoon and Chromium-browser. However, when i boot up running in RAM (pfix-ram option), all is copacetic. I'm not sure what other info to provide...

...thoughts???
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#2 Post by april »

copacetic is a big word for me
Like a lot of duplicated words in english completely unnecessary

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#3 Post by bigpup »

I will assume this is in Tahrpup 6.0.5.

In the browsers. Any add-ons that handle video or sound?
Flash Player maybe?

I run Palemoon with no add-ons at all and it works with no problems.
Videos play as html5
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#4 Post by Subito Piano »

Yeah, i tried running PaleMoon with add-ons disabled, no flash installed, but that doesn't change anything. Hmm....
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#5 Post by dancytron »

I don't know if Palemoon is based on a late enough Firefox/mozilla to have the pulse audio problem.

It might be that you upgraded Palemoon to a version that needs pulse audio, that would explain why it works with pfix=ram but doesn't work with your save file.

You might try to install Fred's firefox with apulse audio (a pulse audio work around) built in. If that works, then it is probably the pulse audio problem.
Latest firefox with apulse
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 836#978010

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http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 836#948558
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#6 Post by 8Geee »

Could be 1 or 2 things...

In alsa sound wizard click on the Adjust Levels and check that "Auto-Mut" is DISABLED.

Other thing to try is a Palemoon/Firefox Addon that plays YouTube. YouTube ALL HTML5 is what I use in Firefox 27, it might help in yours.

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#7 Post by bigpup »

ripped out ~/.asoundrc
This person needed .asoundrc to fix his.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=66016#p66016
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#8 Post by Subito Piano »

Nyet....the altered firefox didn't work -- kept crashing for some reason, and the apulse pet didn't help PaleMoon. Besides, Chromium is exhibiting the same problem, so it's something else.
What is is supposed to "glue" the browser to the sound system? Isn't there some gstreamer plugin that is supposed to bring it all together? I have the VLC plugin for PaleMoon, and it's set to "ask to activate" -- maybe that is problematic?
I've also ditching my config files for sound and PaleMoon, as i recall....still no joy. It's got to be some sound issue, the sound program is not getting a signal from the any of the browsers. Ugh.
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#9 Post by Subito Piano »

8Geee: tried the automute both ways. No dice. Also, the extension won't work in PaleMoon BUT my problem is not Flash vs. HTML5 -- i know that because i can't play an mp3/ogg file in the browser. I can "see" it playing, but no sound. Again, the problem also exists in Chromium -- though only recently. Wish i could remember what i might have changed or installed. (I've ripped a lot out lately trying to find the culprit.)

BigPup -- I had an .asoundrc file...but doesn't opening up alsamixer and choosing my SoundBlaster card do the same thing? Interestingly, music plays thru Deadbeef through either the SoundBlaster card OR the HD-Audio generic...DO let me know if i'm wrong about the .asoundrc file...thanks...
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Actually -- the only way that audio files will even try "play" is through the VLC plugin. Disabling that plugin, the audio file (local mp3 or ogg file) can only be downloaded. (Yes, downloading a local file -- odd.) So -- this is not the default behavior, as PaleMoon "out of the box" on a clean install of Puppy will play the file. Have i lost/disabled some system-wide built-in sound program for the browsers?
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#11 Post by Subito Piano »

Hmm -- still looking at this. Is my problem that VLC is not running at all???!?!

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sh-4.3# vlc
VLC media player 2.1.6 Rincewind (revision 2.1.6-0-gea01d28)
ALSA lib conf.c:635:(get_char_skip_comments) Cannot access file ?xml version="1.0"?
ALSA lib conf.c:1686:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:1:21:No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3406:(config_file_open) /root/.asoundrc may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib conf.c:3328:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3777:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration
[0x9e4e150] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0x9edfe48] skins2 interface error: no suitable dialogs provider found (hint: compile the qt4 plugin, and make sure it is loaded properly)
[0x9edfe48] skins2 interface error: cannot instantiate qt4 dialogs provider
[0x9edfe48] [cli] lua interface: Listening on host "*console".
VLC media player 2.1.6 Rincewind
Command Line Interface initialized. Type `help' for help.
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If this is the issue -- how to fix?
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#12 Post by bigpup »

BigPup -- I had an .asoundrc file...but doesn't opening up alsamixer and choosing my SoundBlaster card do the same thing? Interestingly, music plays thru Deadbeef through either the SoundBlaster card OR the HD-Audio generic...DO let me know if i'm wrong about the .asoundrc file...thanks...
Again, This person needed .asoundrc to fix his.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=66016#p66016
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#13 Post by Subito Piano »

Thanks, Bigpup. I made a new .asoundrc file with his code and rebooted, figuring i might have to change the 1s in the file to 2s and try a second time, as my SB card is #2...however, now PM is totally unstable, as well as VLC. :roll:

I've already put several hours into this, more than a custom reinstall requires. At this point i'll mothball my current pupsave folder, copy my most recent backup folder in its place, and get any files i need from the now-unstable pupsave. Most everything of importance is on another partition for safety anyway and any dressings i want will be in my old .config file.

Sigh -- i always like to know what went wrong and how to fix it but there's a point....thanks for your time and thoughts, everybody.
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