On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:18, Mike Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > Many a time I get garbled or no audio in Youtube, Pandora or flash > multimedia sites. System audio still works if I play a cd or stream > internet radio via Amarok. > > I can restore it be killing the browser and restarting it. It happens in > Firefox & Chrome. > > I'm running Debian Sid. I'm thinking the problem lies in the flashplayer > plugin. Has anyone else experienced this?
yup. for the past couple of years, flash has worked really poorly on my 64bit machines (i got worse results with the native 64bit version than the 32bit version, and in opera as well as firefox). they're all varying versions of ubuntu, but sometimes the audio just disappears (well, it never starts, more like) or gets stuck in a techno-music-like-stutter of a half second or so of the actual audio stream. most of the 'missing audio' problems are attributable to something else having /dev/dsp open and not sharing, so i can often fix by killing that process, killing the plugin/nspluginwrapper PID, and reloading the page. youtube is most likely to work well, every other site that uses more than one flash widget (usually multiple banner ads) are most likely to show problems. though actually, my problem is most often the flash player hanging (and freezing the entire browser, though the browser recovers after i kill the plugin) entirely rather than video continuing without audio in the middle of doing something. it's gotten so i browse without plugins enabled most of the time. sigh. i just chalked it up to "flash on 64bit linux doesn't work well". perhaps this isn't the case, but i've never found a good solution, despite trying many workarounds as suggested in the ubuntu forums. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
