568789 - HTML5 Audio stream ( OGG ) does not play

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Description

[Mark Boas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

Pressing play on the audio control results in the button changing to pause but no audio.

This has been found to work with varying degrees of success in other browsers.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Add <audio controls>
<source src="http://radio.hiof.no/nrk-alltid-nyheter-128.ogg" />
</audio> to a webpage.

2.Press play.

3.Try in Opera to verify that it is possible.
Actual Results:  
Occasionally it seems to play, but more often than not there is no audio at all. The player doesn't report that the source is broken.

Expected Results:  
Audio should play.

Not sure if there are different issues under windows. The article : http://www.trygve-lie.com/blog/entry/html_5_audio_element_and seems to suggest there is.

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

Is this a dupe of bug 455165?

Comment 2

[Mark Boas]

I only say occasionally it seems to play because I swear it worked once, at least for a bit, but I have not got it to play since, so left as 'Reproducible: Always'.

Comment 3

[Mark Boas]

I've taken a look at bug 455165 but I'm not sure if it is the same issue. I'm not familiar with chained ogg streams and what the 'chained' bit is referring to.

Comment 4

[Stephan]

I've noticed that most of the time Firefox won't play my ogg files either (it used to perfectly, but at some point it stopped). I *can sometimes* get Firefox to play it though by moving the cursor off the beginning (can't always do that either) before it starts playing; thereafter it can play that ogg from the beginning (until reload).

My ogg files have custom tags, I haven't tried stripping those, but it plays the wave files I get from the ogg files perfectly.

Comment 5

[rubenvanos]

I can confirm this on Firefox 13.0.1 on Arch Linux x86 when streaming from an MPD server using the vorbis decoder.

When using the following code (hostname and port edited for privacy reasons)
<audio id="background-audio" autoplay="autoplay">
<source src="http://hostname:port/mpd.ogg" type="audio/ogg" />
</audio>

Music will stream from the MPD server correctly under Chromium 19.0.1084.56 (0) on my system, but no sound will play under Firefox 13.0.1.

Comment 6

[rubenvanos]

(In reply to rubenvanos from comment #5)
> I can confirm this on Firefox 13.0.1 on Arch Linux x86 when streaming from
> an MPD server using the vorbis decoder.
> 
> When using the following code (hostname and port edited for privacy reasons)
> <audio id="background-audio" autoplay="autoplay">
> <source src="http://hostname:port/mpd.ogg" type="audio/ogg" />
> </audio>
> 
> Music will stream from the MPD server correctly under Chromium 19.0.1084.56
> (0) on my system, but no sound will play under Firefox 13.0.1.

Unfortunately there is no edit button, so I need to reply: after roughly 20 tries it started to play once. No webpage, MPD or Firefox settings were changed. It seems to work at times, but not always.

Comment 7

[Stephan]

(In reply to Stephan from comment #4)
> I've noticed that most of the time Firefox won't play my ogg files either
> (it used to perfectly, but at some point it stopped). I *can sometimes* get
> Firefox to play it though by moving the cursor off the beginning (can't
> always do that either) before it starts playing; thereafter it can play that
> ogg from the beginning (until reload).
> 
> My ogg files have custom tags, I haven't tried stripping those, but it plays
> the wave files I get from the ogg files perfectly.

This has not been an issue for me for a very long time. Removing myself from the CC list.

Comment 8

[Luis de Bethencourt [:luisbg]]

I just test this and it works fine.

Should this bug be closed?

Comment 9

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

You don't have to ask me twice :-)