Focus-android: No audible sound in videos played in browser

[ioana-chiorean]

Device: Pixel 2 (Android 8.1.0) / Samsung Galaxy S8 (Android 7.0)
Build: +GeckoView #3898

Steps:

• Go to video sites like ted.com / vimeo.com / dailymotion, and play video

Expected results:

• videos should be played without issues -like missing sound, graphic jams etc

Actual results:

• no sound is audible

Video - https://youtu.be/z3XKj-Bi03k

[ekager]

Known issue, Bugzilla issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1410456

[ioana-chiorean]

@ekager just to make sure it was seen from the video, audio works perfect in Firefox for Android Nightly

[ekager]

@snorp this would work in FIrefox for Android and not Klar+GeckoView, correct?

[snorp]

Yeah, it's a problem when you build with targetSdk >= 24 (or 25?), which Fennec does not currently do.

[ioana-chiorean]

Thanks for the clarification @snorp and @ekager - it seems I misread the bug parameters.

[ekager]

Thanks for catching this @ioana-chiorean ! I think it will hopefully be fixed soon by 1410456 but we'll keep it open until it is resolved. :)

[sv-ohorvath]

Looks like the audio issue it's fixed in Klar+Gecko 4.0.

[ekager]

For which device(s) @sv-ohorvath ?

[sv-ohorvath]

*Only works on Android 6 and lower:
HTC Desire 820 (Android 6.0.1)
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (Android 5.0.1)
Huawei Honor 5X (Android 5.1.1)

Still no audio on Android 7 & 8:
HTC 10 (Android 8.0)
Google Pixel (Android 8.0)
Samsung Galaxy S8 (Android 7.0)
Motorola Nexus 6 (Android 7.0)

[pocmo]

Updated to GeckoView 2018-03-04 (not merged yet!) and this seems to work now (Pixel XL, Android 8.1).

[pocmo]

@ioana-chiorean @sv-ohorvath Can you confirm that this is working for you with the latest version?
http://bit.ly/focus-preview-builds (app-klar-gecko-arm-beta-signed-aligned.apk)

[sv-ohorvath]

Verified on several devices and the audio is now working on all:
LG Nexus 5 (Android 6.0.1)
Huawei Nexus 6P (Android 8.0)
HTC 10 (Android 8.0)
Samsung Galaxy S8 (Android 7.0)
Motorola Nexus 6 (Android 7.0)
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (Android 5.0.1)

[pocmo]

Thank you!