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fail to play music

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on manjaro i3wm, firefox91 can not play music and no voice when play video. but chromium can. the output message on terminal is:

$firefox [Child 60021, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: 7fd242a17ac0 OpenCubeb() failed to init cubeb: file /build/firefox/src/firefox-91.0.2/dom/media/AudioStream.cpp:324 [Child 60021, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7fd247667c00 [OnMediaSinkAudioError]: file /build/firefox/src/firefox-91.0.2/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp:3980 [Child 60021, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7fd247667c00 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_MEDIASINK_ERR (0x806e000b) - OnMediaSinkAudioError: file /build/firefox/src/firefox-91.0.2/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp:3541

on manjaro i3wm, firefox91 can not play music and no voice when play video. but chromium can. the output message on terminal is: $firefox [Child 60021, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: 7fd242a17ac0 OpenCubeb() failed to init cubeb: file /build/firefox/src/firefox-91.0.2/dom/media/AudioStream.cpp:324 [Child 60021, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7fd247667c00 [OnMediaSinkAudioError]: file /build/firefox/src/firefox-91.0.2/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp:3980 [Child 60021, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7fd247667c00 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_MEDIASINK_ERR (0x806e000b) - OnMediaSinkAudioError: file /build/firefox/src/firefox-91.0.2/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp:3541

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Make sure you have the latest FFmpeg and libavcodec packages installed.