[webkit-gtk] Webkit seizes sound device

[Jeffrey Barish]

On Sunday, 01 December 2013 16:44:22 Philippe Normand wrote:
> Which website are you trying to visit exactly?

Wikipedia.  The page about John Philip Sousa, for example.

> The webaudio setting would be useful only for websites using the
> WebAudio API... Anyway, WebAudio is not even enabled in the build yet so
> this setting has no effect at all.
> 
> Which version of the webkitgtk package are you using exactly?

dpkg says

libwebkitgtk-1.0-0                   1.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

> Can you test the latest stable release?

Probably beyond my abilities.  If it's available as a deb package maybe.

> Philippe
> 
> On Sat, 2013-11-30 at 10:00 -0700, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> > Apologies to those who have seen this message on the webkit mailing list. 
> > I erroneously subscribed to that list before understanding that I should
> > have subscribed to this one.
> > 
> > When I visit a web page that wants to play a sound, webkit opens the sound
> > device and never lets go of it until I navigate away from the page.  I
> > would like for webkit not to open the sound device (and to ignore any
> > play request, obviously).  Is there a way to tell webkit globally that it
> > should ignore all sounds and never, ever open the sound device?
> > 
> > I am on Lubuntu 12.04.  webkit appears to be 1.0.
> > 
> > I found the enable_webaudio property in WebSettings.  It seemed as if it
> > would solve my problem, but it was already at its default value (False).
> > 
> > I tried changing some settings in dconf-editor:
> > 
> > org | gnome | desktop | media-handling | autorun-never -> ticked
> > org | gnome | desktop | media-handling | autorun-x-content-ignore ->
> > ['audio/ogg']
> > desktop | gstreamer | 0.10 | default-elements |
> > {chat,music,sounds}-audiosink -> fakesink
> > 
> > all to no avail.  Any suggestions?  My best idea at this point is to
> > filter the <audio></audio> item out of the html, but I think that's a
> > pretty bad idea.
> > 
> > Jeff
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