Bug 218704 - www/firefox has no sound.
Summary: www/firefox has no sound.
Status: Closed Not Enough Information
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: amd64 Any
: --- Affects Many People
Assignee: freebsd-gecko (Nobody)
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Reported: 2017-04-17 14:32 UTC by Peter C B Henderson
Modified: 2018-11-20 17:30 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Peter C B Henderson 2017-04-17 14:32:52 UTC 
For www/firefox version 53.0_2,1, sound does not work when built with the standard configuration.

I recently installed FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p9 and built all ports from scratch, almost entirely with the default configurations.  I found there was no sound in firefox, including YouTube videos.  Other applications I tested for sound still worked, including opera, xmms, vlc-qt4 and the chrome browser.

After much searching, the suggested solution in various forums is to turn off Pulse Audio in the configuration.  This I did.  After rebuilding firefox, the sound worked again.

For reference, here is the configuration I used, after turning off Pulse Audio.

ALSA           : on
BUNDLED_CAIRO  : on
CANBERRA       : off
DBUS           : on
DEBUG          : off
DTRACE         : on
FFMPEG         : on
GCONF          : off
GNOMEUI        : off
INTEGER_SAMPLES: off
LIBPROXY       : off
OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS: on
PGO            : off
PROFILE        : off
PULSEAUDIO     : off
RUST           : on
SNDIO          : off
TEST           : off
Comment 1 Walter Schwarzenfeld 2018-01-12 11:52:58 UTC 
We have firefox 57.0.4 and 11.0 has EOL. Overcome by events.
Comment 2 Jan Beich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-11-20 17:30:47 UTC 
Probably caused by broken PulseAudio configuration e.g., not refreshed after bug 211684 landed.