Ok so give me a quick answer to this:

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:23 pm

Vids are immediately losing audio when I play them in youtube, or embedded, and not even from youtube. I think I have narrowed it down to a Firefox-only problem. Have you heard of this issue? If not, hush. I don't need "stop using firefox" as a solution. The audio plays for about a full second before fading out to almost zero, I can hear a few bass rumbles as it plays, but nothing intelligible.

As I said, the same vids work in IE.

BUT, I found one vid that actually works for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAAntuU95UM

But this one doesn't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzwbOZKfrUQ

So what the fuck?

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:30 pm

Uninstalled/reinstalled Firefox. Problem persists.

i was thinking about doing a system reload anyway. Maybe I'll just do that tonight or tomorrow.

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:41 pm

I don't need "stop using firefox" as a solution.

Well if you're going to rule out the correct answer, what does that leave?

EDIT: Looking at the videos you linked I can only speculate, but YouTube has been moving away from flash and to HTML5. If the older one works and the new one doesn't and this is a new problem for you, perhaps that's the core difference. Here's a page that will check your browser compatibility. If that all looks fine check Firefox settings for anything related to HTML5 audio. At least that's what I would try, but it's all speculation.

EDIT2: Here's a tiny reddit thread from four months ago. It leads me to ask 1) is your Firefox up to date, and 2) in the sound mixer when Firefox goes quiet does it show up as having an individual lowered volume, and does raising it up again help?

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Post by **GORDON** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 8:03 pm

Problem is new as of 24 hours ago.

I JUST reinstalled the browser with a new download, so I assume I am up to date. Checked vids, problem persists. And, it is kinds hard to tell, but even on vids that work, volume seems to go up and down like one thing is trying to turn it down, and another thing is trying to keep it where it was. It's weird.

Mixer channels are all about midway, where they should be.

The answer doesn't seem to be obvious, or I'd have found it by now... and lack of many google results tells me it may just be me. I was just hoping one of y'all had seen the issue before.

Post by **Leisher** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 8:08 pm

I have seen this issue before, but I do not remember the solution. Reinstall Flash?

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 8:15 pm

Leisher wrote:I have seen this issue before, but I do not remember the solution. Reinstall Flash?

UNinstalled it.... same results with the 2 above vids.

Haven't reinstalled it yet.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 8:30 pm

Meh, just going to launch a system scratch/reload. Like I said, was thikning about it anyway.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 10:38 pm

Hit F12. Anything show up in the console? My latest version of FF works fine. I'd also recommend a Flash reinstall. Flash sucks at uninstalling.

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Post by **GORDON** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 10:50 pm

Already reloaded, loading drivers and reinstalling windows and shit. Haven't even hit my sound card drivers yet. Will get back to testing sometimes tomorrow.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:10 pm

Well for fuck sakes. Still having the problem. Maybe I'll just try to transition to Chrome.

Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:14 pm

Welcome to 5 years ago!

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:17 pm

I am slow to drop things that still work. I was slow to get on Firefox in the first place. But if FF aint gonna work no more, then it's gone.

Post by **Leisher** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:24 pm

Each browser, even IE, has their pros and their cons.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 5:08 pm

I'm slowly transitioning off FF. I'll tell you for a fact that IE is a pain in the ass to develop for. MS has to do everything a little fucking differently. Chrome's debugging tools also blow both the others out of the fucking water.