Support for Pepper Flash / HTML5 vids?

[shoober420]

Then you should be able to choose gstreamer from a drop-down menu I think.

What drop-down menu are you talking about?

You probably have gstreamer 0.10 - it's ok too but their might be some bug.

I for sure have gstreamer 1.0 on my system. Although Debian stable is rather slow to upgrade its packages, Debain sid is always on top and almost always have the latest packages available. Debian sid is not slow at upgrading packages at all.

I do not know how firefox is being compiled on Debian Sid so I can't say it will work. What I do know is that the firefox devs are about to ship gstreamer 1.0 in their default builds, when Devian Stable will have gst 1.0 packages in the repos. That's their plan.

I downloaded the nightly builds. It was version 32 if I remember correctly. I didn't compile it myself. I'm not concerned about Debian stable, since I use sid, which usually has the latest packages available. I do most definitely have gstreamer 1.0 on my system. I have version 1.2.4-1 to be exact. I will install the gstreamer-properties package and see if that fixes it.

Since Chromium is the only software I use that doesn't have native OSS4 support, I figured I'll dump it and uninstall all ALSA related packages. I'm sure audio will sound better in Firefox with native OSS4 sound too. Firefox seems to be getting ready to add sandboxing, so I'm looking forward to that. Sandboxing and HTML5 support is the main reason I stick with Chromium, since I watch alot of YouTube videos in HTML5.

[nuc]

Then you should be able to choose gstreamer from a drop-down menu I think.

What drop-down menu are you talking about?

Oh, sorry I meant that after you install gstreamer-properties and start it from your terminal you should be able to choose the oss4 backend from a drop-down menu.

[shoober420]

I've just discovered that you can play youtube videos with VLC player and MPlayer. This is great! That means there is no need to libasound2 or other ALSA wrappers. On top of that, you get true high quality OSS sound from VLC. This is a great alternative.

[oss117]

On top of that, you get true high quality OSS sound from VLC. This is a great alternative.

Excepted that VLC v2.1 completely broke OSS playback...

For a start, it adjusts the volume via the OSS mixer (which is fine), but "forgets" to reset the mixer level to 100% before exiting, meaning that the next program with an audio output that will get that mixer channel affected, gets a volume which is far below 100% (unless you had VLC at 100% volume), which is not what most programs expect (the mixer channel is usually kept at 100%, and this is always the case for non-OSSv4 aware programs), and will force you to open the OSS ossxmix program to reset the channel level at 100% manually.

Much worst, when your CPU is loaded at 100% (for example, when compiling a project with all cores), then VLC fails to feed the OSS mixer fast enough, and you get very distorted/interrupted audio and video, making the whole thing completely "unhearable" and "unwatchable"... For this reason, I had to downgrade to VLC v2.0.9, which is the last version with a *working* OSS support.

[nuc]

Excepted that VLC v2.1 completely broke OSS playback...

Damn.. Is there any official bugreport for this?

[oss117]

Excepted that VLC v2.1 completely broke OSS playback...

Damn.. Is there any official bugreport for this?

Yes, I opened a bug report, but the guy replying it seems to be a little... "thick"... See by yourself, and good luck having the VLC team taking the bugs into account and fixing them... I'm personally giving up on trying (I've got more important stuff to attend to).

[nuc]

Yes, I opened a bug report, but the guy replying it seems to be a little... "thick"... See by yourself, and good luck having the VLC team taking the bugs into account and fixing them... I'm personally giving up on trying (I've got more important stuff to attend to).

Fair enough, thanks for your engagement! It is disturbing to know that VLC's lead developer is an arrogant asshole.
It appears he submitted some patch though -> http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2. ... 904454c7fc

[oss117]

It appears he submitted some patch though -> http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2. ... 904454c7fc

Yes, it might fix the mixer level messing up, but the sound stuttering is still to be fixed and by far the most problematic issue...

[ossuserr]

I have noticed that if cooked mode is disabled opera browser no longer has sound. So that cooked mode is required for sound from internet. I wish there were a feature to enable cooked mode only for certain applications like browsers and disable for others.