On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 at 11:29, James Pearson <james-p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Jonathan Billings wrote:
> >
> > Amazingly it appears that Red Hat has released another Firefox:
>
> Red Hat just follow the Mozilla ESR stream release cycle, which is
> currently ESR 78 with point releases come out every 4 weeks or so
>
> Each ESR stream is supported by Mozilla for about a year, with each major
> release based on the standard 'rapid release' version at the time - i.e.
> the previous ESR version was 68, based on the Firefox rapid release version
> 68 and the current ESR version is 78, based on the Firefox rapid release
> version 78. The ESR point releases coincide with the rapid release major
> releases, although the ESR point releases are just for security bug fixes
> (occasionally contains other non-security bug fixes), whereas the rapid
> release new major versions may have new features, security and bug fixes
> plus other enhancements added etc
>
> Therefore the ESR release is more stable over a longer period - and so
> best suited for 'Enterprise' use
>
> The current ESR version is 78.4.0 - with 78.5.0 coming in November and
> 78.6.0 in December - so I'm guessing Red Hat might release 78.5.0 before
> EL6 reaches EOL at the end of November ?
>
> I have no idea if the latest 78.4.0 release from Red Hat will fix the
> sound issues on EL6
>
>
OK I got a VM installed with EL6 and ran firefox --debug. The errors seem
to be
[Child 3570, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: 7fffd72b46d0 OpenCubeb()
failed to init cubeb: file
/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-78.3.0/dom/media/AudioStream.cpp, line 331
[Child 3570, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7fffd72cb400
[OnMediaSinkAudioError]: file
/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-78.3.0/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
line 3891
[Child 3570, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7fffd72cb400
Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_MEDIASINK_ERR (0x806e000b) -
OnMediaSinkAudioError: file
/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-78.3.0/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
line 3470
[Child 3570, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: 7fffd72b4fc0 OpenCubeb()
failed to init cubeb: file
/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-78.3.0/dom/media/AudioStream.cpp, line 331
[Child 3570, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7fffd6edd400
[OnMediaSinkAudioError]: file
/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-78.3.0/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
line 3891
[Child 3570, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7fffd6edd400
Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_MEDIASINK_ERR (0x806e000b) -
OnMediaSinkAudioError: file
/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-78.3.0/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
line 3470
[Thread 0x7fffcdcf5700 (LWP 3638) exited]
[Child 3570, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: 7fffd72b5160 OpenCubeb()
failed to init cubeb: file
/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-78.3.0/dom/media/AudioStream.cpp, line 331
[Child 3570, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7fffd6edd400
[OnMediaSinkAudioError]: file
/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-78.3.0/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
line 3891
[Child 3570, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7fffd6edd400
Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_MEDIASINK_ERR (0x806e000b) -
OnMediaSinkAudioError: file
/builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-78.3.0/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
line 3470
when I try to play sounds from https://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/
I am doing this in my spare time outside of moving and some other items..
so I am not sure 'how fast' I can get to this. [My current guess is that
the Firefox requirement for pulseaudio in 78+ is looking for a different
version ABI that EL6 supports.]
> James Pearson
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