[gentoo-user] no sound when playing flash
Hello List, I have two machines with Gentoo Linux installed, and one of them I don't hear sound when playing flash anims either in konqueror or in firefox. On the other machine I hear sounds well in flash anims. Other applications play sound well. I don't find any significant differencies between the two install, so I thought I ask it in this list. Where should I search for the solution? Thank you for your help in advance, Istvan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no sound when playing flash
--- Stefan Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I have two machines with Gentoo Linux installed, and one of them I don't hear sound when playing flash anims either in konqueror or in firefox. On the other machine I hear sounds well in flash anims. Other applications play sound well. I don't find any significant differencies between the two install, so I thought I ask it in this list. Well, the difference between the flash plugin and most other programs that play sounds is that it only supports OSS not alsa or arts. So the problem is that you either have OSS emulation disabled in the kernel or the soundcard only supports one stream at a time and another application is using the soundcard (if you are using KDE that program is artsd) Where should I search for the solution? Assuming you are indeed using KDE it can be fixed in Konqueror by checking the Use artsdsp... in the netscape modules configuration tab in Konquerors properties. For a general fix see the alsa documentation on how to enable dmix for OSS emulation too. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no sound when playing flash
On 2/28/06, Stefan Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I have two machines with Gentoo Linux installed, and one of them I don't hear sound when playing flash anims either in konqueror or in firefox. On the other machine I hear sounds well in flash anims. Other applications play sound well. I don't find any significant differencies between the two install, so I thought I ask it in this list. Where should I search for the solution? I once had the same problem, solved it using ESD (well, not the best solution, but it works), so, at my startup script I have esd and flash anims have sound... Try it, open any console and type esd and try flash... Thank you for your help in advance, Istvan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no sound when playing flash
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 10:19, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I once had the same problem, solved it using ESD (well, not the best solution, but it works), so, at my startup script I have esd and flash anims have sound... It's not only the best solution it is the only solution. Flash uses esd for sound. You can start it everytime you start your web browser or you can add esound to your default run level. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no sound when playing flash
On 14:42 Tue 28 Feb , Zac Slade wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 10:19, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I once had the same problem, solved it using ESD (well, not the best solution, but it works), so, at my startup script I have esd and flash anims have sound... It's not only the best solution it is the only solution. Flash uses esd for sound. You can start it everytime you start your web browser or you can add esound to your default run level. eh? I have sound with flash and I don't have esd installed. I don't have proper hardware mixing though, so when I want to hear sound with flash I usually have to restart firefox or it doesn't work. Presumably this is fixable, and is due to flash using oss rather than alsa, but I haven't really tried. On a computer with a soundcard that does do hardware mixing (and without esd installed) I could get sound with flash whilst other things were playing sound though. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no sound when playing flash
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 14:56, David Morgan wrote: eh? I have sound with flash and I don't have esd installed. Didn't use to be the case, went googling and found that it no longer requires esd it just uses OSS. I don't have proper hardware mixing though, so when I want to hear sound with flash I usually have to restart firefox or it doesn't work. Or as I found there are alternatives here, try launching firefox with artsdsp firefox, or alternatively aoss firefox. This will play all sound through a muxer and will allow it to play nice even on machines without hardware mixing. So to recap, you don't need esd anymore, just working OSS (ALSA provides OSS compatibility). If you are having trouble with it playing while other things are playing sound try using aoss or artsdsp to mux the sounds for you (or esd if you like). -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no sound when playing flash
On 15:22 Tue 28 Feb , Zac Slade wrote: Or as I found there are alternatives here, try launching firefox with artsdsp firefox, or alternatively aoss firefox. This will play all sound through a muxer and will allow it to play nice even on machines without hardware mixing. So to recap, you don't need esd anymore, just working OSS (ALSA provides OSS compatibility). If you are having trouble with it playing while other things are playing sound try using aoss or artsdsp to mux the sounds for you (or esd if you like). aoss firefox works, and I've changed line 454 of /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher to aoss $mozbin $@ which will hopefully do the same thing -- djm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
