Bug 979721

Summary: Firefox 22 doesn't play video or audio
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sean Sheedy <redhat>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Jan Horak <jhorak>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 18CC: gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak
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Troubleshooting information from Firefox none

Description Sean Sheedy 2013-06-29 20:38:03 UTC
Description of problem:
Since upgrading to Firefox 22, I'm no longer able to view youtube videos or play Google voice audio.  This was working fine in Firefox 21.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
22.0-1.fc18.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to play youtube video or Google voice message.

Actual results:
firefox hangs for around 20 seconds without any video or audio output.

Expected results:
The video or audio plays properly.

Additional info:
Reinstalling and rebooting does not fix the problem.

Comment 1 Sean Sheedy 2013-06-29 21:02:49 UTC
I've gone through all the steps in the "How to Debug Firefox" page.  Nothing resulted in any improvement.

Comment 2 Sean Sheedy 2013-06-29 21:05:00 UTC
Created attachment 766943 [details]
Troubleshooting information from Firefox

Comment 3 Sean Sheedy 2013-07-18 18:34:27 UTC
Recent updates of packages other than firefox have caused video to start working again.

Comment 4 Jan Horak 2013-07-22 13:13:01 UTC
Closing as current release, please feel free to reopen if your problem reoccurs. Thanks.