[solved] Re: No sound in midori

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> writes:

> On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 18:15 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Hi all.
>> 
>> I aptitude-installed midori on my old laptop because it is claimed to be
>> lightweight and so effectively seems to be.  But apparently there's no sound
>> in it, e.g. when watching youtube videos.  The same video has sound if
>> watched through firefox.  Can anybody suggest why so and how to solve it?
>
> Midori uses GStreamer, so make sure that's installed and you can play
> sound through other GStreamer applications. 
>
> Also see http://midori-browser.org/faqs/ (scroll down to HTML5 Video/
> Audio doesn't play)
>
> Also, double check the volume control to make sure Midori isn't muted :)

Thanks!  I did:

# aptitude install libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0-dbg libwebkitgtk-3.0-common libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev libwebkitgtk-common-dev libwebkitgtk-dev gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio

and now youtube has sound.

Rodolfo