[desktop] No audio

[Michael Terry]

On my xenial desktop, no audio seems to play in webbrowser-app (but it does in Firefox or Chromium).

Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ for example.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Just tested in a xenial VM, and I get sound.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Oh bother. I'm not sure why I'm not getting sound then.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

This is still happening to me. It's getting annoying to switch to other browsers just for the occasional video.

If I play a youtube video, when I look in the Applications tab of the Sound panel in System Settings, it doesn't even show up in the list of applications that are playing sound. So it looks like it never connects to pulseaudio.

Any ideas on debugging this?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Sorry for not getting back to you earlier. I haven’t made the switch to xenial on my desktop machine yet, so I can’t really investigate further for now.

Could you check with a simple QML WebView if sound plays? You can save the following example as a qml file, and open it with qmlscene:

import QtQuick 2.4
import com.canonical.Oxide 1.9
WebView {
    width: 800
    height: 600
    url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
}

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Aha. That did not play any audio either. Shall we switch this bug to the oxide component?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Yes, just done it.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Poke on this. It's really annoying for everyday use. Basically makes webbrowser-app unusable on desktop xenial.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Well it's usable. But unusable as your main browser, in the sense that I need a second browser everytime I want to watch a youtube video or similar.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Sorry Michael, I understand this makes your experience with webbrowser-app frustrating, but I’m not really sure where to start investigating this issue (I can’t observe it in my up-to-date xenial VM). Maybe look at what pulseaudio reports when trying to play sound in an oxide webview?

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Ah, well if it's just me, I don't care so much.