digitalmars.D - [OT] Getting Flash to work in Firefox on Linux
- Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) (5/14) Feb 23 2007 I'm (roughly) in the same boat. This seems to be a topic in which quite
- Clay Smith (5/9) Feb 23 2007 Try using the Video Downloader firefox extension to download the video (...
- Michiel (7/10) Feb 24 2007 Of course, but that's not the point. We just want the sound to work in
- Frits van Bommel (2/4) Feb 24 2007 There was also some talk about future directions, IIRC mostly near the e...
- Alberto (7/7) Feb 24 2007 I have gentoo, and I have flash working too (video and audio). I have
- Michiel (5/12) Feb 24 2007 I've used Flash 9 now for a couple of months. Is the 'official' version
- Alberto (9/12) Feb 24 2007 there is net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.31.0, that is stable:
- Michiel (5/20) Feb 24 2007 Right. I've used that version for a good while now. The sound still
- Alberto (3/6) Feb 24 2007 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-537058-highlight-flash+audio.html
- kenny (4/25) Feb 24 2007 can you paste me "lsof | grep snd"
- Bill Baxter (4/9) Feb 24 2007 yes -- like returning tuples! That's the first I've heard that it's on
- Howard Berkey (3/23) Feb 24 2007 Apologies if none of these are news to you or if they have already been ...
- Lionello Lunesu (7/27) Feb 26 2007 I have Ubuntu 6.10, 64-bit, and got Flash 9 to work in Firefox with
Michiel wrote (in a different thread):kenny wrote: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! AndreiI 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.
Feb 23 2007
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
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
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
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
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
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
Alberto wrote:Right. I've used that version for a good while now. The sound still doesn't work. -- MichielI'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
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
Michiel wrote:Alberto 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 themRight. I've used that version for a good while now. The sound still doesn't work.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
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 themThe 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
Michiel wrote:kenny wrote: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.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 themThe 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?
Feb 25 2007
kenny wrote:Michiel wrote: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?kenny wrote: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.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 themThe 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?
Feb 25 2007
kenny wrote:controlC0 midiC0D0 midiC0D1 midiC0D2 midiC0D3 seq timerwhen I do: controlC0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D0p seq timerI get nothing from the lsof commands. -- Michieldoes 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
Michiel wrote:kenny wrote: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?controlC0 midiC0D0 midiC0D1 midiC0D2 midiC0D3 seq timerwhen I do: controlC0 pcmC0D0c pcmC0D0p seq timerI get nothing from the lsof commands.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
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
Michiel wrote:kenny wrote: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 :)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.
Feb 25 2007
kenny wrote:Yes, I do have that built in the kernel. -- Michielin 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 :)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.
Feb 25 2007
Frits van Bommel wrote:Michiel wrote:yes -- like returning tuples! That's the first I've heard that it's on Walter's todo list. --bbAnyway, 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
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! AndreiApologies 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
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! AndreiI 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