No support for HTML5 Audio tag

Hello Iain,
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I went to the page you mention using Firefox 5 and indeed I get no audio; however I used Google Chrome as well and I get the same results (i.e. no audio). Furthermore, I found this official audio tag demo from Mozilla:

http://moztw.org/demo/audioplayer/

Both Firefox and Chrome are able to play the audio in that page without problems.

You can also try this demo:

http://www.phoboslab.org/files/html5audio/

So I'd like to ask you:

1- Which browsers have you seen that are able to play the audio file you pointed to?
2- Might it be an audio format issue? It looks like Firefox only supports ogg format audio and apparently the audio file in the website you're looking at is mp3 format (specifically not supported by Firefox).

Thanks!

Hi,

I've tested again in the latest version of Chrome for Ubuntu
(13.0.782.107) and HTML5 audio is working as expected, just click the
play button and all is well

The stream is MP3, but why does Firefox
not support playing such a common media type (I presume this is a
reported issue already)

Cheers

Iain

On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:10:47
-0000, Daniel Manrique wrote:

> Hello Iain,
> Thank you for taking the
time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
>
> I went
to the page you mention using Firefox 5 and indeed I get no
> audio;
however I used Google Chrome as well and I get the same results
> (i.e.
no audio). Furthermore, I found this official audio tag demo from
>
Mozilla:
>
> http://moztw.org/demo/audioplayer/ [1]
>
> Both Firefox
and Chrome are able to play the audio in that page without
> problems.
>

> You can also try this demo:
>
>
http://www.phoboslab.org/files/html5audio/ [2]
>
> So I'd like to ask
you:
>
> 1- Which browsers have you seen that are able to play the
audio file you pointed to?
> 2- Might it be an audio format issue? It
looks like Firefox only supports ogg format audio and apparently the
audio file in the website you're looking at is mp3 format (specifically
not supported by Firefox).
>
> Thanks!
>
> ** Changed in: firefox
(Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/820343 [3]Title:
> No support for HTML5
Audio tag
>
> Status in "firefox" package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
>
Bug description:
> Firefox doesn't support the HTML5 audio tag correctly
whilst other
> modern browsers do
>
> Mobile HTML5 Test stream
>
>
http://eastmanchesterradio.com/mobile.php [4]
>
> ProblemType: Bug
>
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: firefox
5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu
2.6.38-11.47-generic 2.6.38.8
> Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
>
Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Aug 3 13:36:17 2011
> FirefoxPackages:
>
firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
> flashplugin-installer
10.3.181.34ubuntu0.11.04.1
> adobe-flashplugin N/A
> icedtea-plugin
1.1.1-0ubuntu1~11.04.1
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal"
- Release i386 (20110427.1)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
>
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox
>
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Links:
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[1]
http://moztw.org/demo/audioplayer/
[2]
http://www.phoboslab.org/files/html5audio/
[3]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/820343
[4]
http://eastmanchesterradio.com/mobile.php
[5]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/820343/+subscriptions
[6]
http://bit.ly/emradio

Hi Iain,

Firefox does not natively support MP3 format due to patent and licensing issues:

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Media_formats_supported_by_the_audio_and_video_elements

There's a report on Firefox's bug tracker, but discussion in the upstream bug indicates that it won't be implemented on Firefox's side:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562730

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.