On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 at 11:29, James Pearson james-p@moving-picture.com 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.]
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