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  • Re: Firefox codecs

    From George at Clug@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 11 22:10:01 2024
    Bruno ,

    I am pleased that you (and all of us), now have this issue fixed. Thanks for posting your issue.

    George.


    On Saturday, 12-10-2024 at 04:41 Bruno Schneider wrote:
    On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 3:18 PM Bruno Schneider wrote:

    I use Debian testing on a few machines. I recently upgraded all
    packages in one of them and now Firefox won't play some videos on
    YouTube or play any music on YouTube Music.

    Comparing against a working machine not so up-to-date. I noticed that about:support#media shows "AAC SW" at the working machine and shows
    nothing related to AAC at the faulty one. It seems this is the
    problem: lost AAC support on the machine somehow.

    So I made a list of all installed packages on both machines and looked
    at differences. However, no package in the differences seem to have
    any relation to codecs.

    Anyone can help get support for AAC to work on Firefox?

    For the record, after upgrading to 128.3.0esr-2, AAC support magically reappeared. Solved.

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    Bruno Schneider



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  • From Virgo =?UTF-8?Q?P=C3=A4rna?=@21:1/5 to Bruno Schneider on Tue Oct 15 12:30:01 2024
    On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 13:47:14 -0300, Bruno Schneider <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 11:46 PM Max Nikulin wrote:
    Do you have libfdk-aac2 or gstreamer1.0-fdkaac (non-free) installed? It
    may depend on whether PipeWire or PulseAudio is used.
    Now I'm writing from a computer where Firefox supports AAC that has
    neither of those packages installed, just to make sure that such
    support does not come from these packages.


    Since firefox recommends
    libavcodec61 | libavcodec-extra61 |
    libavcodec60 | libavcodec-extra60 | libavcodec59 |
    libavcodec-extra59 | libavcodec58 | libavcodec-extra58 |
    libavcodec57 | libavcodec-extra57 | libavcodec56 |
    libavcodec-extra56 | libavcodec55 | libavcodec-extra55 |
    libavcodec54 | libavcodec-extra54 | libavcodec53 |
    libavcodec-extra53

    are any of those installed in new computer? Probably both libavcodec and libavcodec-extra are needed.

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    Virgo Pärna
    [email protected]

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