Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)
I just noticed something I didn't notice before. Since I have learned
I need to kill esd before going to a flash-enabled web site to see the
flash correctly (and not have my browser die), I assumed the flash was
spawning its own esd process. Actually, I just noticed that, while
flash is playing correctly--without freezing and with sound--no esd
process is running. So flash must be accessing /dev/dsp directly which
thus must be the problem when an esd process is already running.
Thus, the solution would seem to be (as Wim pointed out) the sound
driver wrapper used by Mozilla. Unless I'm using it wrongly (again,
I'm using Sarge), it doesn't appear to solve the problem. I'm assuming
if I'm using esd that I want the value of "esddsp" for MOZILLA_DSP.
Yet neither this nor the value "auto" seems to allow flash to play from
a web browser while esd is running. In both cases, the flash
animation and the browser itself hangs. Part of the strangeness
is that this wasn't a problem in Woody. This has only been the
case since I've upgraded to Sarge (which possibly is due to a
later version of Mozilla?).
paul
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> Hi, so it appears that I cannot successfully play flash with my web
> browser anymore. This has begun since I upgraded to sarge. Mozilla
> (and firefox) using flashplugin-nonfree freezes when I go to common
> flash sites. The entire browser is then hosed until the processes are
> killed from another window. I bet I'm explaining something all too
> familiar for some (many?) of you, I'm guessing. Used to work fine
> with Mozilla before upgrading. I've experienced the same thing on
> a completely different computer running Red Hat 8. I'm not seeing much
> discussion about it, however. So, maybe I'm either wrong, need to
> accept it just doesn't work or am really behind in the
> discussion/solution :)
>
> Epiphany plays flash just fine. But just doesn't play the soundtrack.
> My flash life is really in the junk yard right now. Please save
> me from jumping to Windows just to see homestarrunner.com.
>
> Any help? Thanks.
>
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