Problem with simultanious sound sources

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1

Hello,

I’m ashamed to admit that I’m addicted to haxball (an online flash game)
I also love listening to Spotify!
Having skype running is a bit of a necessity.

Whenever I want to play haxball while listening to spotify I have to make sure spotify is playing music before I open haxball.com, otherwise flash takes over the sound system and I get no other sounds my PC. If for some reason spotify stops playing mid game, flash takes over and I have to close firefox/chrome before I can resume the music.

Another scenario is when I’m listening to music and skype makes a sound. The music stops playing while skype is making it’s usual noises and then resumes playing.

Googling came up with two possible solutions that didn’t work for me.

Number 1: install alsa-plugins-pulse (or whatever it’s called)
That didn’t work as it was already installed, both 32 and 64 bit versions

Number 2: change ~/.asoundrc
This solution suggested changing ~/.asoundrc to look like this

╭─noxx@linux  ~  
╰─$ cat .asoundrc 
pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}

ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}

pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
device 0
}

ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
device 0
}

However this didn’t make any difference

My google-Fu is weakening. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Also, I’ve never had this problem with OpenSuse 13.1, although I had other annoying problems with pulseaudio

2

If you are using pulse
You can try installing

paprefs

and enable simultaneous output.
Then use

pavucontrol

for your audio.

3

Thank you for the reply.
I’ve already tried that, but for example, when I start playing music and then open haxball, on pavucontrol under “Playback” the “Simultaneous output” registers no sound (I mean the little bar doesn’t move)
If I disable “Add virtual output device for…” on paprefs, nothing for flash shows up pavucontrol

4

Hi,
Would this be the same as you pointed out?
I am playing audio cd in smplayer and in firefox I went to you tube and play a music video as of writing.
I can hear two different audio streams using the simultaneous output in pavucontrol.

5

I don’t think youtube still uses flash. My problem occurs when using flash or skype and anything else like totem, spotify (linux client), netflix on chrome…

6

I have flash enabled on Leap in firefox so it is using flash.

7

After testing youtube out, I does indeed fail to produce simultaneous sound.
Having spotify playing, starting a youtube video will play for a few seconds, with no sound and then show static on the player saying there’s been a problem.
Starting youtube, and then spotify, youtube is fine but spotify has no sound.

Is there anyway I can get output from the flash plugin?

EDIT: Seems I can get logs from flash, but it’s not very straight forward

8

After getting the flash debugger up and running on my 64bit OS, all I got on the logs after youtube stopped working is this

Warning: Domain www.youtube.com does not explicitly specify a meta-policy, but Content-Type of policy file https://www.youtube.com/crossdomain.xml is 'text/x-cross-domain-policy'.  Applying meta-policy 'by-content-type'.
Warning: Domain r4---sn-2vgu0b5auxaxjvh-v2vs.googlevideo.com does not explicitly specify a meta-policy, but Content-Type of policy file https://r4---sn-2vgu0b5auxaxjvh-v2vs.googlevideo.com/crossdomain.xml is 'text/x-cross-domain-policy'.  Applying meta-policy 'by-content-type'.
Warning: Domain i.ytimg.com does not explicitly specify a meta-policy, but Content-Type of policy file https://i.ytimg.com/crossdomain.xml is 'text/x-cross-domain-policy'.  Applying meta-policy 'by-content-type'.
Warning: Domain s.youtube.com does not explicitly specify a meta-policy, but Content-Type of policy file https://s.youtube.com/crossdomain.xml is 'text/x-cross-domain-policy'.  Applying meta-policy 'by-content-type'.

Seem pretty useless to me.
Also haxball pops up a few errors but also seem of no relevance.

Any more ideas on where to look next?

9

I have no idea:|
Where did you get your flash?
I’m using the one from packman.

With pulse can you post your pulse packages
I am not using zypper but if I remember it right
you can check the pulse packages installed with

zypper se -i pulse

or you can verify it in yast2-software management.

I will compare it with the one installed on my machine.

10

According to Yast I got the latest flash from Opensuse-13.2-Update-Non-Oss repository.
The debugger version of flash I got from adobe’s website.

And these seem to be all my pulse packages:

╭─noxx@linux  ~  
╰─$ zypper se -i pulse
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name                        | Summary                              | Type   
--+-----------------------------+--------------------------------------+--------
i | alsa-plugins-pulse          | Pulseaudio Plug-In for the ALSA Li-> | package
i | alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit    | Pulseaudio Plug-In for the ALSA Li-> | package
i | libpulse-mainloop-glib0     | GLIB 2.0 Main Loop wrapper for Pul-> | package
i | libpulse0                   | Client interface to PulseAudio       | package
i | libpulse0-32bit             | Client interface to PulseAudio       | package
i | pulseaudio                  | A Networked Sound Server             | package
i | pulseaudio-esound-compat    | ESOUND compatibility for PulseAudio  | package
i | pulseaudio-module-bluetooth | Bluetooth support for the PulseAud-> | package
i | pulseaudio-module-gconf     | GCONF module for PulseAudio          | package
i | pulseaudio-module-lirc      | LIRC module for PulseAudio           | package
i | pulseaudio-module-x11       | X11 module for PulseAudio            | package
i | pulseaudio-module-zeroconf  | Zeroconf module for PulseAudio       | package
i | pulseaudio-utils            | PulseAudio utilities                 | package

EDIT: Using flash-plugin from Packman made no difference.