Re: No sound with flash videos & iceweasel [was: Re: No sound with video]
Sorry--I failed to respond to list. Tom
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> From: Tom Ashley <tomashleyjr@gmail.com>
> To: Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com>
> Subject: Re: No sound with flash videos & iceweasel [was: Re: No sound
> with video]
> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:05:07 -0500
>
> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 17:55 -0500, Ralph Katz wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> Mine shows:
>
> $ cat /dev/sndstat
> Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.12rc1 emulation code)
> Kernel: Linux tomshome 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 00:12:50 UTC 2007
> i686
> Config options: 0
>
> Installed drivers:
> Type 10: ALSA emulation
>
> Card config:
> C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC6 (model 55) at 0xd000, irq 5
> MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10
>
> Audio devices:
> 0: C-Media PCI DAC/ADC (DUPLEX)
>
> Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>
> Midi devices:
> 1: MPU-401 UART MIDI
>
> Timers:
> 7: system timer
>
> Mixers:
> 0: CMedia PCI
> 1: mixer10
>
> > 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.
> >
> Thanks for your help. Perhaps others may have ideas.
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