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html5 audio

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EuPhobos
EuPhobos
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How i can configure audio output in html5? Firefox html5 plays only on first ALSA sound card ignoring my ~/.asoundrc in home directory. But other sounds like plugins Flash and other according to ~/.asoundrc work fine for me in firefox. My system: Debian Jessie x86_64 Browser: firefox v28.0 x86_64 Audio: ALSA only (no pulseaudio, no OSS, no phonon ... etc)

Problem only with html5 audio

How i can configure audio output in html5? Firefox html5 plays only on first ALSA sound card ignoring my ~/.asoundrc in home directory. But other sounds like plugins Flash and other according to ~/.asoundrc work fine for me in firefox. My system: Debian Jessie x86_64 Browser: firefox v28.0 x86_64 Audio: ALSA only (no pulseaudio, no OSS, no phonon ... etc) Problem only with html5 audio

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guigs
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Try to update flash and Shockwave, I do not know if your drivers are up to date either, but it looks like ALSA looks for the graphics device? Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL

Wait, wait, there was an old bug I found, it moved from alsa to oss

  • Bug 503691 - ALSA is required to build media backends on Linux

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276354#c5

Work arounds that I found in other forums:

Have you tried these already? I hope this helps.