On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 at 11:29, James Pearson <james-p at 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.] > James Pearson > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stephen J Smoogen.