#21 2015-10-02 18:31:27

hhh

Gaucho

From: High in the Custerdome

Registered: 2015-09-17

Posts: 16,072

Website

Re: [SOLVED] RC1's IceWeasel fails HTML5 audio tests (MP3 and M4A)

Re: http://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/
... clicking on the HTML5 test MP3 link... fails.

Confirmed in an RC1 64 bit Live session. Thanks for reporting this, when I said it WFM I must have already installed audacious (one of the first things I do on a Debian system).

I'll try installing the packages posted here and report back.

---

I don't care what you do at home. Would you care to explain?

hhh

Gaucho

From: High in the Custerdome

Registered: 2015-09-17

Posts: 16,072

Website

Re: [SOLVED] RC1's IceWeasel fails HTML5 audio tests (MP3 and M4A)

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-good

That gets the mp3 test at dogphilosophy to play for me. I needed both packages to get it to work, for whatever reason.

libavcodec56 is already present on the ISO and so is libflac8. I've installed libavcodec-extra but no joy on the flac test, so if anyone has any suggestions...

---

I don't care what you do at home. Would you care to explain?

tknomanzr

BL Die Hard

From: Around the Bend

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 1,057

Re: [SOLVED] RC1's IceWeasel fails HTML5 audio tests (MP3 and M4A)

You could try Flac.
A cursory search suggests that flac is not commonly used in-browser, which makes sense, since it is a lossless protocol.

---

My Deviant Art Page
Github

expat2be

Member

From: Las Vegas

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 28

Website

Re: [SOLVED] RC1's IceWeasel fails HTML5 audio tests (MP3 and M4A)

A cursory search suggests that flac is not commonly used in-browsel.

FLAC is not part of HTML5.

The HTML5 audio browser compatibility https://html5test.com/ tests for these audio types:

OGG
OPUS
MP3
AAC (M4A)
PCM
WebM (OGG or OPUS)

Assuming that VLC is installed, you can play almost any audio or video format file or stream in a Firefox-compatible browser. Just add VideoLan's browser-plugin-vlc and go to about:addons > plugins to change that plugin setting to ALWAYS ACTIVATE or ASK TO ACTIVATE.

sudo apt-get install vlc browser-plugin-vlc

Last edited by expat2be (2015-10-02 21:26:58)

---

Radio Jukebox | USB Multiboot Collections | HomeNet Wi-Fi Media Server | Compact Linux Directory | Mobile Web Sites

-- One of those curious distrohopping crunchbangers since the good ole early days back in 2008 --

hhh

Gaucho

From: High in the Custerdome

Registered: 2015-09-17

Posts: 16,072

Website

Re: [SOLVED] RC1's IceWeasel fails HTML5 audio tests (MP3 and M4A)

I'll include gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly in the next ISO release. I'm not planning to include the vlc plugin as I've never felt I missed it, but if people think it's a good idea we'll certainly discuss it.

Otherwise, feel free to close this.

---

I don't care what you do at home. Would you care to explain?