Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:00:14 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Jan Beich <jbeich@tormail.org> Subject: Re: www/firefox: crashing when intend to play video/streaming Message-ID: <CADLo83_9uAcCcMkFHoPNqRQd4D%2B33=jugHAa46WjyqLiS28fEA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1363719838.2427.82.camel@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> References: <1363677538.1458.6.camel@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> <1UHxsq-000CIC-Is@internal.tormail.org> <1363719838.2427.82.camel@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org>
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On 19 Mar 2013 19:04, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 23:30 +0900, Jan Beich wrote: > > "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> writes: > > > > > When trying to play a video from YouTube or any other type of stream on > > > a website providing it, Firefox is "crashing" > > > > ARIFF_OSS option/patch in audio/alsa-plugins is not really maintained > > and probably only needed for 7.x which is now EOL. It has a known > > issue (see ports/170473) where www/firefox built with ALSA would > > crash unless you set media.use_cubeb -> false in about:config. > > > > If you don't use youtube.com/html5 then my guess would be an issue > > with IPC e.g., libevent14 is getting in the way again. Try setting > > dom.ipc.plugins.enabled -> false. > > Hello. > > Thanks for this hint! > I deactivated ALSA in the opetions-menu (as well as RTC stuff since it > only builds with ALSA). I used PULSEAUDIO instead. I also configured the > option in Firefox itself as recommended. The result is, that now the > videos, no matter how they are embedded in a webpage, can be played > again and Firefox isn't crashing anymore. dom.ipc.plugins.enabled -> > true also remains the Firefox stable. Why not try the OSS option? Pulseaudio is usually a waste of time. Chris
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