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reply "Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)" <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
Michiel wrote (in a different thread):
 kenny wrote:

 I don't know about ubuntu, but in gentoo, flash sound wouldn't
 work while I was using flash 7. I upgraded to netscape-flash-9 and
 everything is hunky dory now. The problem is, your sound device is
 being used by something else (lsof | grep /dev/snd). It's because the
 old flash used oss, I think, and the new one uses alsa.
I wish I could say the same. I run Gentoo and can't get any sound out of Firefox. I already upgraded to netscape-flash-9. I enabled ALSA support and OSS support in the kernel, installed alsa-oss... I'm out of ideas.
I'm (roughly) in the same boat. This seems to be a topic in which quite some people took interest, so by this I'm starting a new thread. If anyone has ideas or pointers, please post here - thanks! Andrei
Feb 23 2007
next sibling parent reply Clay Smith <clayasaurus gmail.com> writes:
Try using the Video Downloader firefox extension to download the video ( 
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/ ), and then use mplayer to play 
the video.

~ Clay

Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
 If anyone has ideas or pointers, please post here - thanks!
 
 
 Andrei
Feb 23 2007
parent reply Michiel <nomail please.com> writes:
Clay Smith wrote:

 Try using the Video Downloader firefox extension to download the video (
 https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/ ), and then use mplayer to play
 the video.
Of course, but that's not the point. We just want the sound to work in Firefox. :) Anyway, I've watched part of the video with Video Downloader. He's just repeating the D documentation, and I've read that already. -- Michiel
Feb 24 2007
parent reply Frits van Bommel <fvbommel REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> writes:
Michiel wrote:
 Anyway, I've watched part of the video with Video Downloader. He's just
 repeating the D documentation, and I've read that already.
There was also some talk about future directions, IIRC mostly near the end.
Feb 24 2007
next sibling parent reply Alberto <reda zioale.it> writes:
I have gentoo, and I have flash working too (video and audio). I have
tested firefox and konqueror, without problems.
I know that can be "problems" with gentoo 64bit (I have amd64), but
gentoo users have solved flash problems from a while..
The best thing is to upgrade to flash 9 (the official version for linux
was relased in january 17, 2007), many audio problems has been fixed
(from flash 9 beta2).
Feb 24 2007
parent reply Michiel <nomail please.com> writes:
Alberto wrote:

 I have gentoo, and I have flash working too (video and audio). I have
 tested firefox and konqueror, without problems.
 I know that can be "problems" with gentoo 64bit (I have amd64), but
 gentoo users have solved flash problems from a while..
 The best thing is to upgrade to flash 9 (the official version for linux
 was relased in january 17, 2007), many audio problems has been fixed
 (from flash 9 beta2).
I've used Flash 9 now for a couple of months. Is the 'official' version not in portage yet? -- Michiel
Feb 24 2007
parent reply Alberto <reda zioale.it> writes:
 I've used Flash 9 now for a couple of months. Is the 'official' version
 not in portage yet?
 
there is net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.31.0, that is stable: KEYWORDS="-* amd64 x86" that from the adobe site: Version: 9,0,31,0 Platform: Linux Browser: Firefox, Mozilla, SeaMonkey Date Posted: 1/16/2007 Language: English it is the lastest flash version (and the ufficial)
Feb 24 2007
parent reply Michiel <nomail please.com> writes:
Alberto wrote:

 I've used Flash 9 now for a couple of months. Is the 'official' version
 not in portage yet?
there is net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.31.0, that is stable: KEYWORDS="-* amd64 x86" that from the adobe site: Version: 9,0,31,0 Platform: Linux Browser: Firefox, Mozilla, SeaMonkey Date Posted: 1/16/2007 Language: English it is the lastest flash version (and the ufficial)
Right. I've used that version for a good while now. The sound still doesn't work. -- Michiel
Feb 24 2007
next sibling parent Alberto <reda zioale.it> writes:
 Right. I've used that version for a good while now. The sound still
 doesn't work.
 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-537058-highlight-flash+audio.html 99% it's a configuration problem, for example, have you compiled/loaded oss module?
Feb 24 2007
prev sibling parent reply kenny <funisher gmail.com> writes:
Michiel wrote:
 Alberto wrote:
 
 I've used Flash 9 now for a couple of months. Is the 'official' version
 not in portage yet?
there is net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.31.0, that is stable: KEYWORDS="-* amd64 x86" that from the adobe site: Version: 9,0,31,0 Platform: Linux Browser: Firefox, Mozilla, SeaMonkey Date Posted: 1/16/2007 Language: English it is the lastest flash version (and the ufficial)
Right. I've used that version for a good while now. The sound still doesn't work.
can you paste me "lsof | grep snd" if you don't have lsof, emerge lsof The reason why I say this is because if you have a device using the old oss interface, I've seen my sound not work before. running that command, I can find out what devices are using my sound, to close them
Feb 24 2007
parent reply Michiel <nomail please.com> writes:
kenny wrote:

 can you paste me "lsof | grep snd"
 
 if you don't have lsof, emerge lsof
 
 The reason why I say this is because if you have a device using the old oss
interface, I've seen my sound not work before. running that command, I can find
out what devices are using my sound, to close them
The output is empty. Though let me clarify: I do get sound out of other applications (like Xine). But only one application at a time. Any ideas? -- Michiel
Feb 24 2007
parent reply kenny <funisher gmail.com> writes:
Michiel wrote:
 kenny wrote:
 
 can you paste me "lsof | grep snd"

 if you don't have lsof, emerge lsof

 The reason why I say this is because if you have a device using the old oss
interface, I've seen my sound not work before. running that command, I can find
out what devices are using my sound, to close them
The output is empty. Though let me clarify: I do get sound out of other applications (like Xine). But only one application at a time. Any ideas?
when I do: controlC0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D0p seq timer does yours look like that too? It looks like xine is using a different interface to the sound than it should. For example, I emerged gxine so I could show you: gxine 6950 root mem CHR 116,16 2975 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p gxine 6950 root 9u CHR 116,0 2966 /dev/snd/controlC0 gxine 6950 root 15r CHR 116,33 3091 /dev/snd/timer ... truncated ... I'm not exactly sure, but I'd look into that.
Feb 25 2007
parent reply kenny <funisher gmail.com> writes:
kenny wrote:
 Michiel wrote:
 kenny wrote:

 can you paste me "lsof | grep snd"

 if you don't have lsof, emerge lsof

 The reason why I say this is because if you have a device using the old oss
interface, I've seen my sound not work before. running that command, I can find
out what devices are using my sound, to close them
The output is empty. Though let me clarify: I do get sound out of other applications (like Xine). But only one application at a time. Any ideas?
when I do: controlC0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D0p seq timer does yours look like that too? It looks like xine is using a different interface to the sound than it should. For example, I emerged gxine so I could show you: gxine 6950 root mem CHR 116,16 2975 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p gxine 6950 root 9u CHR 116,0 2966 /dev/snd/controlC0 gxine 6950 root 15r CHR 116,33 3091 /dev/snd/timer ... truncated ... I'm not exactly sure, but I'd look into that.
let me clarify, I mean I think *your* xine is using a different interface than it should. Which one is it using for you? Also, if you lsof | grep /dev/dsp does anything come up?
Feb 25 2007
parent reply Michiel <nomail please.com> writes:
kenny wrote:

 when I do:


 controlC0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  seq  timer
controlC0 midiC0D0 midiC0D1 midiC0D2 midiC0D3 seq timer
 does yours look like that too? It looks like xine is using a different
interface to the sound than it should. For example, I emerged gxine so I could
show you:



 gxine      6950       root  mem       CHR     116,16                 2975
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
 gxine      6950       root    9u      CHR      116,0                 2966
/dev/snd/controlC0
 gxine      6950       root   15r      CHR     116,33                 3091
/dev/snd/timer
 ... truncated ...

 I'm not exactly sure, but I'd look into that.
let me clarify, I mean I think *your* xine is using a different interface than it should. Which one is it using for you? Also, if you lsof | grep /dev/dsp does anything come up?
I get nothing from the lsof commands. -- Michiel
Feb 25 2007
parent reply kenny <funisher gmail.com> writes:
Michiel wrote:
 kenny wrote:
 
 when I do:


 controlC0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  seq  timer
controlC0 midiC0D0 midiC0D1 midiC0D2 midiC0D3 seq timer
 does yours look like that too? It looks like xine is using a different
interface to the sound than it should. For example, I emerged gxine so I could
show you:



 gxine      6950       root  mem       CHR     116,16                 2975
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
 gxine      6950       root    9u      CHR      116,0                 2966
/dev/snd/controlC0
 gxine      6950       root   15r      CHR     116,33                 3091
/dev/snd/timer
 ... truncated ...

 I'm not exactly sure, but I'd look into that.
let me clarify, I mean I think *your* xine is using a different interface than it should. Which one is it using for you? Also, if you lsof | grep /dev/dsp does anything come up?
I get nothing from the lsof commands.
well, hmmm it appears your problem is not having the pcm* devices. Those are pretty important, because they're what receive the data to be put on the speakers. Perhaps something's not right in udev or your kernel?
Feb 25 2007
parent reply Michiel <nomail please.com> writes:
kenny wrote:

 it appears your problem is not having the pcm* devices. Those are pretty
important, because they're what receive the data to be put on the speakers.
Perhaps something's not right in udev or your kernel?
Well, I assure you I have done nothing exotic as root. Anyway, it's just a slight annoyance. I might look deeper into it some day. -- Michiel
Feb 25 2007
parent reply kenny <funisher gmail.com> writes:
Michiel wrote:
 kenny wrote:
 
 it appears your problem is not having the pcm* devices. Those are pretty
important, because they're what receive the data to be put on the speakers.
Perhaps something's not right in udev or your kernel?
Well, I assure you I have done nothing exotic as root. Anyway, it's just a slight annoyance. I might look deeper into it some day.
in your kernel, do you have: CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS: OSS PCM (digital audio) API that's the last thing I can think of, other than possibly udev isn't getting those devices. you definitely need the pcm devices, I know that :)
Feb 25 2007
parent Michiel <nomail please.com> writes:
kenny wrote:

 it appears your problem is not having the pcm* devices. Those are pretty
important, because they're what receive the data to be put on the speakers.
Perhaps something's not right in udev or your kernel?
Well, I assure you I have done nothing exotic as root. Anyway, it's just a slight annoyance. I might look deeper into it some day.
in your kernel, do you have: CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS: OSS PCM (digital audio) API that's the last thing I can think of, other than possibly udev isn't getting those devices. you definitely need the pcm devices, I know that :)
Yes, I do have that built in the kernel. -- Michiel
Feb 25 2007
prev sibling parent Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:
Frits van Bommel wrote:
 Michiel wrote:
 Anyway, I've watched part of the video with Video Downloader. He's just
 repeating the D documentation, and I've read that already.
There was also some talk about future directions, IIRC mostly near the end.
yes -- like returning tuples! That's the first I've heard that it's on Walter's todo list. --bb
Feb 24 2007
prev sibling next sibling parent Howard Berkey <howard well.com> writes:
Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) Wrote:

 Michiel wrote (in a different thread):
  > kenny wrote:
  >
  >> I don't know about ubuntu, but in gentoo, flash sound wouldn't
  >> work while I was using flash 7. I upgraded to netscape-flash-9 and
  >> everything is hunky dory now. The problem is, your sound device is
  >> being used by something else (lsof | grep /dev/snd). It's because the
  >> old flash used oss, I think, and the new one uses alsa.
  >
  > I wish I could say the same. I run Gentoo and can't get any sound out of
  > Firefox. I already upgraded to netscape-flash-9. I enabled ALSA support
  > and OSS support in the kernel, installed alsa-oss... I'm out of ideas.
 
 I'm (roughly) in the same boat. This seems to be a topic in which quite 
 some people took interest, so by this I'm starting a new thread.
 
 If anyone has ideas or pointers, please post here - thanks!
 
 
 Andrei
Apologies if none of these are news to you or if they have already been pointed out: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=255422
Feb 24 2007
prev sibling parent Lionello Lunesu <lio lunesu.remove.com> writes:
Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
 Michiel wrote (in a different thread):
  > kenny wrote:
  >
  >> I don't know about ubuntu, but in gentoo, flash sound wouldn't
  >> work while I was using flash 7. I upgraded to netscape-flash-9 and
  >> everything is hunky dory now. The problem is, your sound device is
  >> being used by something else (lsof | grep /dev/snd). It's because the
  >> old flash used oss, I think, and the new one uses alsa.
  >
  > I wish I could say the same. I run Gentoo and can't get any sound out of
  > Firefox. I already upgraded to netscape-flash-9. I enabled ALSA support
  > and OSS support in the kernel, installed alsa-oss... I'm out of ideas.
 
 I'm (roughly) in the same boat. This seems to be a topic in which quite 
 some people took interest, so by this I'm starting a new thread.
 
 If anyone has ideas or pointers, please post here - thanks!
 
 
 Andrei
I have Ubuntu 6.10, 64-bit, and got Flash 9 to work in Firefox with sound and everything. I just followed this guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341727 I did have a audio recording problem in Skype, which I solved by removing /etc/asound.conf. L.
Feb 26 2007