Play of Youtube videos yields white noise or loud static instead of the audio track.

[Ron Mitchell]

Was attempting to play the Youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noDAsZjvmSA

Instead of the sound track, there was loud static resembling white noise for the entire duration of the video.

The same video played normally on another Lubuntu 12.10 installation I have here, as a Virtual Box guest on my MacBook.

On my eMac, where the problem occurs, sound is working ok for playing audio CD's with Audacious and also with Gnome Mplayer.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: firefox 15.0~b2+build1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-7.7-powerpc-smp 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-7-powerpc-smp ppc
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Architecture: powerpc
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: mitch 1491 F.... lxpanel
BuildID: 20120726130542
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iw'
Channel: Unavailable
Date: Thu Aug 2 22:47:30 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha powerpc (20120731)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.2.1 dev eth0 proto static
 192.168.2.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.2 metric 1
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
Plugins:
 mplayerplug-in is now gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.6 - /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so (gecko-mediaplayer)
 QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.9 - /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-qt.so (gecko-mediaplayer)
 DivX Browser Plug-In - /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so (gecko-mediaplayer)
 RealPlayer 9 - /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-rm.so (gecko-mediaplayer)
 Windows Media Player Plug-in - /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so (gecko-mediaplayer)
PrefSources: prefs.js
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=15.0/20120726130542
RelatedPackageVersions: gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.6-1ubuntu1
RfKill:

RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version.

When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:

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and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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