Flash prevents other audio being played

Hi Everyone,

I have a problem with flash, that I have had with pretty much all Linux
distributions that I have used.

The problem is that whenever Adobe Flash is running, ether It can play
audio, or anything else on my laptop can play audio. Which one does play
audio depends on which gets there first. E.G. if my media player is
running then the flash clip I’m watching won’t have sound, or if I’m on
a website with flash on and I load banshee, banshee won’t be able to
play sound.

I am running 64 bit OpenSUSE installed at 11.0 and I ran a zypper dup
when 11.1 was released.

Code:

:~> uname -a
Linux winxpsp3-1295a9 2.6.25.18-0.2-default #1 SMP 2008-10-21 16:30:26 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


I am running Adobe 64bit flash beta, version: LNX 10,0,21,1

Has anyone else experienced this, resolved, or at least knows what
causes it, so I can look out for a fix for this issue in the future?

Thanks
Ehoni.


Ehoni

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I think I solved this by removing the majority of the pulse audio
things. (And maybe installing some alsa stuff…)

I’ll just mention the packages I’ve installed as I’m guessing you’ll
end up with a working sound system as well.

So if you’re feeling adventurous you might want to uninstall everything
‘pulse’ with the exception of
LIBPULSE0
LIBPULSE0-32BIT

and install (if not installed yet)
ALSA
ALSA-DEVEL
ALSA-FIRMWARE
ALSA-OSS
ALSA-OSS-32BIT
ALSA-PLUGINS
ALSA-PLUGINS-32BIT
ALSA-UTILS

I recommend waiting for oldcpu (or someone else… but he seems to have
the audio questions on these forums covered) to respond however…


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A little bit more information…
rpm -qa | grep xine

Code:

:~> rpm -qa | grep xine
xinetd-2.3.14-115.1
phonon-backend-xine-4.1.3-71.2
libxine1-codecs-1.1.16-0.pm.0
libxine1-pulse-1.1.16-0.pm.0
xine-lib-32bit-1.1.12-8.1
amarok-xine-1.4.10-100.pm.1
libxine1-1.1.16-0.pm.0

rpm -qa | grep flash

Code:

:~> rpm -qa | grep flash
libflashsupport-000-67.1

rpm -qa | grep codec

Code:

:~> rpm -qa | grep codec
w32codec-all-20071007-0.pm.1
libxine1-codecs-1.1.16-0.pm.0
opensuse-codecs-installer-10.3.1-45.1
libavcodec51-0.4.9.15007-3.2
libavcodec52-0.4.9.16240svn-20081219.pm.2021
k3b-codecs-1.0.5-0.pm.7


rpm -qa | grep -i mplayer

Code:

:~> rpm -qa | grep -i mplayer
MPlayer-1.0rc2_r27637-3.pm.3


rpm -q MPlayer

Code:

:~> rpm -q MPlayer
MPlayer-1.0rc2_r27637-3.pm.3


rpm -q vlc

Code:

:~> rpm -q vlc
package vlc is not installed



Ehoni

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This forum has a pretty stupid editing policy. Now I have lots of extra
posts that could really have been in 1.

It looks like the flash beta is supposed to have support for PCM_PULSE
‘PerfectSetup - PulseAudio - Trac’
(http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#FlashPlayer9)

I get this message when flash plays a video when audio is being
played.

Code:

:~> firefox
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused


libflashsupport is 32bit, I’m not sure if this could cause a problem.


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Just an update on this issue.

This issue is now resolved for me. To fix it I did a fresh install of
OpenSUSE 11.1 from the Gnome Live CD, then installed flash. When it
didn’t work, I installed the beta .so from the Adobe website into
/usr/lib64/browser-plugins/

Bit of a cop out and doesn’t tell anyone what was wrong with it, but
that’s what I did to resolve it.


Ehoni

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Axeia;1925822 Wrote:
> So if you’re feeling adventurous you might want to uninstall everything
> ‘pulse’ with the exception of
> LIBPULSE0
> LIBPULSE0-32BIT
>
> and install (if not installed yet)
> ALSA
> ALSA-DEVEL
> ALSA-FIRMWARE
> ALSA-OSS
> ALSA-OSS-32BIT
> ALSA-PLUGINS
> ALSA-PLUGINS-32BIT
> ALSA-UTILS
>
>
>

Thank you. This was working for me. But I had to let
pulseaudio-module-x11 and its dependencies installed otherwise Stardict
would not work. Now, everything is OK. :slight_smile:


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No it does not work in the end. It still have problems. I had to remove
pulseaudio-module-x11 too. Now Stardict no longer work. I think that I
will forget Linux and switch back to the Mac. After two years of
fighting, I am tired.


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