Problems with streaming audio/video

[eeijlar]

Hi,

I am trouble playing any streaming audio/video from for example:

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There are two videos on that page and they just freeze after a few seconds. It's the same with another firefox plugin I use. I have installed the restricted formats packages etc listed here:

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I don't know how to troubleshoot this... any ideas?

/jlar

[eeijlar]

Ok so, it seems to actually play flash videos now... but there is no sound. The sound works on the machine, I heard it through the speakers when I booted up.

[eeijlar]

I started firefox from a console and got the following output:

*** nss-shared-helper: Shared database disabled (set NSS_USE_SHARED_DB to enable).
Currently in use: 1 blocks containing 64.0 KiB bytes total.
Allocated during whole lifetime: 30161 blocks containing 98.7 MiB bytes total.
Sample cache size: 0 B
User name: johnl
Host Name: johnl-2207
Server Name: pulseaudio
Server Version: 0.9.14
Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default Sink: auto_null
Default Source: alsa_input.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0
Cookie: gj

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by eeijlar

Ok so, it seems to actually play flash videos now... but there is no sound. The sound works on the machine, I heard it through the speakers when I booted up.

Try removing libflashsupport (but keep flash-player) and then check those flash web sites.

[eeijlar]

That worked... genius!! Thanks very much oldcpu!

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by eeijlar

That worked... genius!!

Super ! Glad to read of your success.

[counterspy]

Hi, i've got the same problems: sound is everywhere except mozilla. And unfortunately removing libflash-support does not help. Don't know what to do. Any suggestions?

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by counterspy

Hi, i've got the same problems: sound is everywhere except mozilla. And unfortunately removing libflash-support does not help. Don't know what to do. Any suggestions?

To start, can you provide us some more information so we can confirm the same problem? ie ..

• What web sites give you problems? All websites ? only a select few ? PLEASE test multiple web sites. Please provide the URL of some of the site(s) that work for you, and those that fail for you.
• What version of openSUSE is on your PC ? also, is this version 32-bit or 64-bit ?
• What desktop ? KDE3 ? KDE4? Gnome ? XFce ? other ?
• What version of Flash-player are you using? Is it the Flash player from the Non-OSS repository? Is it from somewhere else?
• What plugin are you using? Gecko-mediaplayer ? mplayerplug-in ? and what version of those?

Hopefully the NEED to provide such information does not turn you off, but you must understand we are not sitting at your keyboard with the knowledge of all that information available to us. And unfortunately, its really difficult to provide good suggestions with a dearth of information.

[counterspy]

That's strange, i feel stupid, but when i started to gather all that information, namely, check different cites, the sound appeared out of the blue sky!! Maybe removing of libflashsupport helps indeed but require reboot a smth. Anyway, everything works - thanks a lot

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by counterspy

...when i started to gather all that information, namely, check different cites, the sound appeared out of the blue sky!! Maybe removing of libflashsupport helps indeed but require reboot a smth.

Glad to read it works !