HTML5 in browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Midori, surf, etc.)

gforgx

gforgx

Hi! I'm a bit new to FreeBSD, the last time I've been thoroughly using it as a desktop system was in 2009, when there were no that lot of HTML5 videos on the Web. Now I'm running away from Linux's systemd and decided to switch back to *BSD.

The problem is HTML5 videos are either not played or not properly played (being skipped through). I've tested this in the browsers mentioned above.

E. g., from this page: http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html none of the videos is played, however I can scroll them and see the frame.

I'm using -CURRENT. Any hints are appreciated.
 
I tried the videos on that page with Konqueror (uses XULRunner or Firefox -app as the back end) and Firefox itself. In both cases, I see videos under the headings H.264/MP4, WebM, and Ogg/Theora and all three played without problems. I don't have flash installed and I built my own Firefox package with the options below.
Code: 
ALSA           : on
BUNDLED_CAIRO  : off
CANBERRA       : off
DBUS           : off
DEBUG          : off
DTRACE         : off
GCONF          : off
GIO            : on
GNOMEUI        : off
GSTREAMER      : on
GTK2           : on
GTK3           : off
LIBPROXY       : off
OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS: on
PGO            : off
PROFILE        : off
PULSEAUDIO     : off
TEST           : off
This is on 10.2-STABLE (checked out nearly the revision equal to 10.2 RELEASE) and firefox-40.0_6,1.
 
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I just recently switched from 9.3-RELEASE to 10.2-RELEASE and have not any problems with video or audio in Firefox or Chrome. I'm a web developer and use HTML5 video and audio for several theatre sites without issue.
 
I think the browser is less of a factor than your hardware. Using midori 5.9.1 in OpenBSD/amd64/radeon2400/4 gigbytes of RAM, the video playback for WebM and Ogg/Theora was a little choppy. I have a Via based i386/OpenChrome video with FreeBSD 10.2 that I would not even think of trying to use for on-line videos.

If it is a video I need to watch closely, for example a howto video from youtube, I would download the video first with www/youtube_dl (python script) and then play it back.
 
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I've done some further investigation into the problem. Because it was also the problem the sound wasn't played back, I checked /dev/sndstat and chosen another PCM device, i. e.:

root@queerbook:/home/gforgx # sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=0
Code: 
hw.snd.default_unit: 1 -> 0

There is still no sound, however the videos are getting played back now, via this link and YouTube as well.

I have this card:

root@queerbook:/home/gforgx # dmesg | grep -i audio
Code: 
hdaa0: <Intel Haswell Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc0
hdaa1: <Conexant (0x5114) Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc1
root@queerbook:/home/gforgx # dmesg | grep -i pcm
pcm0: <Intel Haswell (HDMI/DP 8ch)> at nid 3 on hdaa0
pcm1: <Conexant (0x5114) (Analog)> at nid 23 and 26 on hdaa1
pcm2: <Conexant (0x5114) (Right Analog)> at nid 22 and 25 on hdaa1


mixer says it's 100:100:

Code: 
root@queerbook:/home/gforgx # mixer
Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100
Mixer pcm      is currently set to 100:100

Any ideas? I've tried OSS as well, disabling sound and snd* modules in the kernel, but it didn't help as it was detecting no audio devices.

Thanks in advance!
 
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mplayer also says this:

Code: 
A:   4.1 V:   2.0 A-V:  2.095 ct:  0.101   0/  0 31% 164%  4.4% 50 0


           ************************************************
           **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
           ************************************************

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
- Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
- Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.

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To start with you can load the "kitchen sink" for testing with # kldload snd_driver. Do you hear sound when you do cat <some_file> > /dev/dsp?
 
If you are having sound issues I would recommend starting a new thread and posting the information about your system as described in this Thread 51816. Future users, with similiar problems, will be able to more easily search for your solution
 
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