Re: Still no sound in Flash
On 07/13/04 12:20, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I have posted before about this problem before but have still not been
able to get sound to play when running flash.
Sound does work for everything else, just not flash. I can cat a .au
file to /dev/dsp and it works (as root, or a user, since I am in the
audio group). I can also play music CDs with XFreeCD with no problem.
When I run a flash program, however, the speakers are silent. Well,
almost silent -- if I turn the volume all the way up I can hear some
buzzing and clicking in the background, but nothing more.
I had not been running alsa when I last posted, but I installed it
yesterday, after I did an apt-get upgrade and got the new (7.0.25)
version of flash. The results are the same, however.
I am running:
2.4.24-1-k7 kernel (debian stock kernel)
Mozilla Firefox 0.8
Opera 7.50
flashplugin-nonfree 7.0.25-4
alsa-base 1.0.5a-1
alsa-utils 1.0.5a-1
libasound2 1.0.5a-1
I am NOT running arts.
I do NOT use KDE, or gnome. I use fvwm2 as my window manager.
I Can 'cat /dev/dsp' without any errors about the file being busy.
Since I am in the audio group and can 'cat' files to /dev/dsp all the
suggestions about changing permissions do not apply and do not help.
Does anyone have any other suggestions as to what will get me sound in
flash? I would like for my daughter to be able to play flash games on
nick.com, but without sound they arn't real useful.
Flash is a major problem; here's how I work it.
I, too, have struggled to get it functional. I'm using kernel
2.4.25-1-686 with OSS and esd with firefox 0.8 and epiphany 1.0.7 on a
mixed sid/sarge system. Some flash-enabled sites will crash or hang the
browser.
Look at the bug reports on bts and bugzilla to get an idea of the
magnitude of the problem:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211213
[meta] flash crash bugs with linux
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139820
[META] Macromedia flash player known problems which hard or impossible
to fix in mozilla code
I have the flashplayer plugin switched off (renamed), and I only turn it
"on" with a script when I absolutely need it.
As for sound with flashplayer, after months of googling, I /finally/
found a workable solution:
I execute:
$ killall esd
/before/ I visit a sound-enabled flash site. You'd think a daemon would
handle requests appropriately, but no! You have to kill it first, then
it spawns automatically from the browser/flashplayer request upon
visiting the web page with a flash/sound animation. IIRC, I have the
browser sound wrapper set for default "auto."
That seems to work most of the time. Hope this helps. Let me know if
you find a better solution!
Regards,
Ralph
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