topic title: No Sound on PBS Videos
Posts: 39
frogprince
Joined: 08 Nov 2012
#1
This one is weird. I'm running Antix 15, and I have sound on Audacious and on Iceweasel for youtube and most other videos.
But when I try to play an American PBS video (pbs.org) on Iceweasel, I get no sound. The video is fine. The Add-Ons that I have
installed are:

DivX Browser plug-in (always activate)
mplayerplugin is now gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.9 (always activate)
Open H264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc. 1.4 (always activate)
Shockwave Flash (always activate)
QuickTime Plug-In 7.6.9 (Ask to activate)
RealPlayer 9 (Ask to activate)
Windows Media Player Plug-In (Ask to Activate)

VLC won't play that video address (
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url was:"http://www.pbs.org/video/1673494883/"
linktext was:"http://www.pbs.org/video/1673494883/"
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) at all. ??

Chromium plays it fine, so there is a workaround. I assume that it's a codec issue.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
Looks like PBS uses JW player when I tried in Iceweasel.

I verified my zip code 1st and tried the great performance video using their player and you are right. No sound.
But it is ok at
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#3
Ha Ha. Went to same site now using my latest Linux install of Seamonkey.

error on page: error loading player. no playable sources found.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#4
3rd test. Yes. On my unsupported 32 bit google-chrome browser install. It plays just fine with sound and all.

Tested on MX-14 Firefox. Plays sound OK also.

All I have in firefox plugins is
OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc.

File: 1.5.1
Version: 1.5.1
State: Enabled
This plugin is automatically installed by Mozilla to comply with the WebRTC specification and to enable WebRTC calls with devices that require the H.264 video codec. Visit
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url was:"http://www.openh264.org/"
linktext was:"http://www.openh264.org/"
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to view the codec source code and learn more about the implementation.
Shockwave Flash

File: libflashplayer.so
Version: 11.2.202.554
State: Enabled
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
Nothing fancy. But my h264 version is newer than yours. My firefox version is 43 also and I know your iceweasel is probably debian stable so you might think of enabling the experimental iceweasel repo and upgrading your iceweasel version. Something I personally have not attempted yet on my AntiX install on the test laptop i used.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#5
Dead end on My Shop Box with
Shockwave Flash

File: libflashplayer.so
Path: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
Version:
State: Enabled
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc.

File: 1.4
Path: /home/harry/.mozilla/firefox/o0yahgxo.default/gmp-gmpopenh264/1.4
Version: 1.4
State: Enabled
Play back web video and use video chats.

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harry@tramp:~
$ apt-cache policy iceweasel
iceweasel:
  Installed: 38.0~b1-1
  Candidate: 42.0~b7-1
  Version table:
     42.0~b7-1 0
        500 http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental/iceweasel-beta i386 Packages
     38.4.0esr-1~deb8u1 0
        500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main i386 Packages
     38.2.1esr-1~deb8u1 0
        500 http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages
 *** 38.0~b1-1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     22.0~b1-1~bpo70+1 0
        500 http://antix.daveserver.info/jessie/ jessie/main i386 Packages
harry@tramp:~
But I have not updated my iceweasel yet
harry@tramp:~
$ inxi -r
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
deb
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url was:"http://antix.daveserver.info/jessie"
linktext was:"http://antix.daveserver.info/jessie"
====================================
jessie main nosystemd
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
deb
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/"
linktext was:"http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/"
====================================
jessie main contrib non-free
deb
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://security.debian.org/"
linktext was:"http://security.debian.org/"
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jessie/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
deb
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://mozilla.debian.net/"
linktext was:"http://mozilla.debian.net/"
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experimental iceweasel-beta
deb
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url was:"http://debs.slavino.sk/"
linktext was:"http://debs.slavino.sk/"
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testing main non-free
harry@tramp:~
Will test again after apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade where my iceweasel version should be equal to the latest firefox version.

No joy.

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oot@tramp:/home/harry# apt-get upgrade iceweasel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 iceweasel : Depends: libnss3 (>= 2:3.19) but 2:3.17.2-1.1+deb8u2 is to be installed
             Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 5.2) but 4.9.2-10 is to be installed
             Depends: libvpx2 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

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root@tramp:/home/harry# apt-cache policy iceweasel
iceweasel:
  Installed: 38.0~b1-1
  Candidate: 44.0~b1-1
  Version table:
     44.0~b1-1 0
        500 http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental/iceweasel-beta i386 Packages
     38.5.0esr-1~deb8u2 0
        500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main i386 Packages
     38.2.1esr-1~deb8u1 0
        500 http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages
 *** 38.0~b1-1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     22.0~b1-1~bpo70+1 0
        500 http://antix.daveserver.info/jessie/ jessie/main i386 Packages
Have another idea. See Below.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#6
Fixed in Iceweasel editing about:config Here are my screenshots for"media" changes I made.





Side effect of this fix is now sound works on youtube using html5 player instead of adobe flashplayer .