No sound on flash videos

[lord_valarian]

I’m aware of HTML5 support of flash video with adobe flash player. I’m not getting any sound from facebook or youtube videos on firefox. Need help.

I’m installed the multimedia pack on this page switch all packages to pakman.

http://opensuse-community.org/index.html
VLC media player works on sound and video formats. MP4, AVI, OGG, MP3.

Will uninstalling adobe flash player force it to use HTML5? Is firefox using HTML5 for flash?

[I_A]

from what you write I doubt this is a flash issue
youtube hasn’t used flash in years they even disabled 3rd party tweaks to force flash
you’ve probably got some OSS packages left behind ie you haven’t done a full vendor change to packman
what is your repo list?

zypper lr -d

[nrickert]

@lord_valarian

I’m not getting any sound from facebook or youtube videos on firefox. Need help.

I’ll describe what I was seeing. You can decide if it is the same.

I am playing music in the background. I go to a website that uses flash (with firefox). No sound.

I am not playing anything in the background. I go to a website that uses flash. The sound is fine. But if I try to also play background music (with Amarok), then Amarok gives no sound – it seems to block until the flash has completed.

My best guess – flash is talking directly to the audio subsystem instead of going through pulse-audio.

My solution/workaround:

• Uninstall flash
• Install freshplayerplugin
• Install flash-player-ppapi

And now sound works fine on flash in firefox.

[lord_valarian]

@I_A

from what you write I doubt this is a flash issue
youtube hasn’t used flash in years they even disabled 3rd party tweaks to force flash
you’ve probably got some OSS packages left behind ie you haven’t done a full vendor change to packman
what is your repo list?

zypper lr -d

Yes, I uninstalled adobe on the last version of opensuse. DIdn’t need the flash cookie control firefox plugin. Flash isn’t installed in this version Opensuse leap 42.3

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I did the vendor change in yast menu, following what the website said.

[lord_valarian]

Hmm, I checked and I see that yast hasn’t switched package groups.

Yast → view → repos → switch system packages (package)

shows “Cancel”

Click accept and allow to complete.

Yast → view → repos → switch system packages (package)

It’s not switching. ??

zypper dup --from http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/

nothing to do.

[I_A]

@lord_valarian

Hmm, I checked and I see that yast hasn’t switched package groups.

Yast –> view -> repos -> switch system packages (package)

shows “Cancel”

Click accept and allow to complete.

Yast –> view -> repos -> switch system packages (package)

It’s not switching. ??

zypper dup --from http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/

nothing to do.

although using zypper dup with the repo URL should work I’ve never done it I usually use the repo number or it’s name

zypper dup --from 2

what does google say about your browsers’s html5 support
https://www.youtube.com/html5
Firefox uses the system ffmpeg for html5 if a vendor change was successful ffmpeg and libav* should be from packman what’s the output of

zypper se -si ffmpeg libav

[lord_valarian]

I had bootup failure. So, I did an update install to fix it.

Followed with this, entering the commands.
http://opensuse-guide.org/codecs.php

zypper lr -d
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[lord_valarian]

@I_A

although using zypper dup with the repo URL should work I’ve never done it I usually use the repo number or it’s name

zypper dup --from 2

Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Computing distribution upgrade…

Nothing to do.

what does google say about your browsers’s html5 support
https://www.youtube.com/html5
Firefox uses the system ffmpeg for html5 if a vendor change was successful ffmpeg and libav* should be from packman what’s the output of

zypper se -si ffmpeg libav

Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…

S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
—±------------------------±--------±------------±-------±---------------------
i+ | ffmpeg | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | ffmpeg | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | packman
i+ | ffmpegthumbs | package | 17.04.2-1.1 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i+ | gstreamer-plugins-libav | package | 1.8.3-3.4 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | gstreamer-plugins-libav | package | 1.8.3-3.4 | x86_64 | packman
i+ | libavahi-client3 | package | 0.6.32-3.5 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i+ | libavahi-client3-32bit | package | 0.6.32-3.5 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i+ | libavahi-common3 | package | 0.6.32-3.5 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i+ | libavahi-common3-32bit | package | 0.6.32-3.5 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i+ | libavahi-core7 | package | 0.6.32-3.5 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i+ | libavahi-glib1 | package | 0.6.32-3.3 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i+ | libavahi-gobject0 | package | 0.6.32-3.3 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i | libavc1394-0 | package | 0.5.4-18.3 | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)
i+ | libavcodec56 | package | 2.8.13-34.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavcodec56 | package | 2.8.13-34.1 | x86_64 | packman
i+ | libavcodec57 | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavcodec57 | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | packman
i+ | libavdevice57 | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavdevice57 | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | packman
i+ | libavfilter6 | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavfilter6 | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | packman
i+ | libavformat56 | package | 2.8.13-34.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavformat56 | package | 2.8.13-34.1 | x86_64 | packman
i+ | libavformat57 | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavformat57 | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | packman
i+ | libavresample3 | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavresample3 | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | packman
i+ | libavutil54 | package | 2.8.13-34.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavutil54 | package | 2.8.13-34.1 | x86_64 | packman
i+ | libavutil55 | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | Packman Repository
i+ | libavutil55 | package | 3.3.4-9.1 | x86_64 | packman

FYI, for unknown reasons I had sound working. Then I had the bootup error. Again, no sound.
In ‘sound and video’ , it’s using phonon streamer.

[I_A]

is this a sound only issue?
do video’s play?
does audio work on local files?
Firefox uses pulse audio for audio output and pulse audio stores per application volume (mute) levels
you can try pavucontrol to configure pulse audio just do it while a video is open in Firefox or else Firefox levels will not show up

[lord_valarian]

@I_A

is this a sound only issue?
do video’s play?
does audio work on local files?
Firefox uses pulse audio for audio output and pulse audio stores per application volume (mute) levels
you can try pavucontrol to configure pulse audio just do it while a video is open in Firefox or else Firefox levels will not show up

audio files: ogg and mp3

video files:
avi,mp4, and mp2

Will try pavucontrol…

[lord_valarian]

Installed PAV.

Playback -> OGG file. Shows volume active.
Output devices ->
Builtin analog stereo - silence
GF114 audio control digital - silence - show all output devices
Configuration>
profile hdmi 2 output
SB recon 3D - analog stereo duplex
Builtin-audio - unplugged

Playback -> youtube video. Show volume active. about 10%
Output Devices - builtin analog stereo - volume active

Playback → Wrong output port. Changed to gf114. Works fine now…

Thanks to all…