Bug#604728: general: Cannot play anything in totem or gnome-mplayer while a flash movie is running in iceweasel

[mircan@poczta.onet.pl]

Looks like editing the file /etc/asound.conf fixed the problem.
Thanks, but shouldn't this be done automatically while installing
pulseaudio package?

Marcin

2010/11/24 Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:19:05PM +0100, marcin wrote:
>
> [No other audio app starts when there's already one running]
>> I'm sorry but I cannot tell which package exactly is the source of the
>> problem so I put it in 'general' section.
>
> Well, looks like a classic: on some (most?) audio cards, ALSA only
> supports a single stream. So if you start your flash playback, the audio
> device is occupied and hence blocked for other apps.
>
> The solution is to multiplex/mix in software, most commonly done with
> pulseaudio these days.
>
> Don't you have pulseaudio installed?
>
> Also, make sure to redirect all ALSA output to pulseaudio. Either in
> /etc/asound.conf or in ~/.asoundrc:
>
> --- asound.conf ---
> pcm.pulse {
>    type pulse
> }
>
> ctl.pulse {
>    type pulse
> }
>
> pcm.!default {
>    type pulse
> }
> ctl.!default {
>    type pulse
> }
> --- end of asound.conf ---
>
>
> HTH
>
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