No sound with flash videos & iceweasel [was: Re: No sound with video]
On 11/15/2007 04:29 PM, Tom Ashley wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
>
> Thanks for the response. I had seen your posts previously and tried the
> proposed solutions but none worked. Nevertheless, I reveiwed them again
> just to be sure--still no luck.
But you get Credits for having done the research!
>> Which players work/don't work? Sound with flash running thru a browser
>> is different from sound from an mpeg4 file playing on mplayer.
>>
> Totem, xmms, soundjuicer, rythmbox all work without any problems.
>
> My problem appears to be limited to the audio portion of flash videos; I
> use Iceweasel with the flash plugin.
OK, problem isolated. Flash does not play well with others, the player
grabs ALSA, so maybe something is using it when flash tries to play
audio. (For me with my old pnp sound card, the dmix plugin was the answer.)
Just a thought, my cat /dev/sndstat output includes:
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Does yours?
There is a command something like <lsof /dev/dsp>, but not that, to
report what's using the sound driver or device. Uh.. time to turn it
over to the experts.
Ralph
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