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After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10 I have no sound for HTML5 players in Google Chrome Browser.
Firefox works.
Flash Players are working.
No sound on Youtube when using HTML5. No sound on vimeo (They have html5 player as standard).
When I open the soundapplication, google doesn't show up when I try to play a html5 video. But it shows up, when playing a Flash Video.
Google Chrome Version is: 24.0.1312.52
Installed an updated via ppa:
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
This was the first thing I found - I scored the following on Fedora 19 on my laptop:
Firefox 29 - Flash Player 11.2.202.359
Chrome 35 - Flash Player 13.0.0.214
So it looks pretty bad for Firefox with the system Linux plugin - however, just as I was writing this, this happened in Chrome where I had left the test open (annoying music muted):
And since I have has this quite often before (occasionally on Ubuntu as well), I think Flash in Firefox generally works MUCH better (and more reliably, loads quicker, etc...)
A test in Flash Player is likely to be the best way to benchmark it, as I suppose the Acid3 test is a good way to benchmark browsers. There are likely to be better tests than this though.
I had the same issue, people have found this thread helpful. However it didn't work for me, so I troubleshooted for a bit, and figured that it must be some clash between the kernel handling my discrete video card(Nvidia GeForce 630m) , which however seems to be fixed by installing and running tlp. Added bonus, more battery life :) :)
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I fixed it. Here is the complete journey:
I tried to install a new version (30.0.1599.114) of Chrome with a deb package.
Installation went O.K. but Chrome still said: Version 24.0.1312.52 in "About Google Chrome). Sound in HTML5 Players still didn't work.
I deleted the ppa. Installed deb package again. Still the same.
Then I moved my profile folder. Restarted Google Chrome and suddenly I had the new version. And HTML5 sound works.
To move the profile folder:
This will delete all your passwords and favorites etc. But if you have google chrome syncronization you can recover it.