Re: No sound in flash movies Debian testing,firefox,nspluginwrapper, adobe 32-bit flash plugin??

[Rob Andrews <rob@choralone.org>]

On 12-Sep-2007 19:11.57 (BST), Dan Hugo wrote:
 > I ended up following the advice posted at
 > http://blog.niceperson.org/2007/07/01/nspluginwrapper-howto-for-debian-sid/ (which was referenced elsewhere on this thread) and now have working Flash for visuals.

That how-to is quite good, but I'd ignore (and remove, if you already have
installed) the part about the symlink /usr/bin/npviewer. It just isn't
needed.

The 0.9.91.5-1 release has an issue where the stub installed by previous
releases (npwrapper.pluginname.so) is incompatible with the new version
because of a variety of changes. So reinstalling from scratch probably had
the effect of updating those stubs for you.

For anyone else reading, if you are having trouble with flash movies
hanging, please run:

    nspluginwrapper -v -a -u

And restart your browser (all of them, not just the window/tab you were
viewing at the time). It should start working. If it doesn't, please raise a
bug.

 > However, I still have no audio.  I do have audio for other things (testing gnome system sounds works, totem-gstreamer plays audio, etc.  I'm using alsa and as I mentioned, sound WAS working.

libflashplayer.so dlopen()s libasound.so.2 - please ensure you have the
following libraries from ia32-libs:

    /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0
    /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (links to) libasound.so.2.0.0

Also, this may have relevance, I have noticed that a number of users have an
ia32 chroot and are putting the chroot's library paths into /etc/ld.so.conf.
If you have done, could you try:

    - Updating the chroot and the host system so they're running the same
      packages

    - Removing the chroot library paths from /etc/ld.so.conf, running
      ldconfig, restarting your browser

If none of these things fix it for you, I don't know what to suggest. Have
you seen any notices about sound in ~/.xsession-errors ?

Kind regards,
rob.

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