Sound & music "pitched up" in web-browsers

Hi all,

I did a full update today to my Opensuse 12.3 (KDE) after a month or so without paying attention to that. Everything seemed to be OK. I got the “segmentation fault” when trying to open skype so I downgraded the KDE4webkit libraries. The problem now is that I tried to play a song on Grooveshark.com and it sounded one or two tones pitched up (not like Alvin & friends, but you could notice it). If I play videos with Kaffeine they sound OK. Amarok is working fine so… there must be a problem with the browser audio setup. Also youtube videos sound with with the same problem. I browsed the forum for similar issues and was not able to find anything. It is possible to reset the audio config? Could it be a flash problem? I mentioned the skype problem at the begining as I don’t know if any other KDE libraries colud be related.

Thanks in advance and sorry if you may need some commands output for troubleshooting and I’m not posting them. I’ll be glad to do it with a bit of help!

Nevermind. A flash downgrade did the trick. I thought about flash while writing the first post, sorry about posting without trying out first.

mmm… seems to be gone on Firefox but still a problem under Google Chorme

chrome uses pepper and packs flash 12.7X or something
Firefox uses flash 12.2X on openSUSE

Hi!

Yes, I had to go to chrome://plugins/ and disable the flash component:* /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so *I can’t believe I have to do this to get a browser working (but now with a choppy flash). Yes, I can still use Firefox but I it could be good to have control over the browser instead of the other way around. I’ll try later with Chromium installing the corresponding pepper and check.

Thanks!

Also have this problem with the latest Chrome on 12.3 64bit.

This is definitely a problem with the flashplugin,

because I’m now using Chromium and having no issues with sound.

Chromium is using flashplugin - 11.2 r202 and Chrome was using 11.7

So looks like my guess of flashplugin is wrong.

I installed the package - chromium-pepper-flash

which installed the latest flashplugin 11.7 to be used with Chromium and chromium does not have the high-pitched sound.

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Update - OK so I just removed Chrome early today, and installed it there again and I’m no longer getting high-pitched sound,

using version - 27.0.1453.93

It seems I’ve spoke too soon, just logged in there and Chrome is back to having high-pitched sound >:(

Apologies for any confusion.

Back to Firefox.

I am having this issue too.
I think pulse is to blame.

Edit: yes it is.
Go into YAST and go to sound, and from there turn pulse audio off, log out and issue fixed.

Removing pulseaudio is just a temporary workaround. I’d rather install pavucontrol and use that to find out what’s going on. There must be some channel producing the noise. IIRC I read something like this years ago where users found out it was the mic next to the webcam that needed muting.

Disabling pulseaudio seems to have fixed it for now :slight_smile:

Actually removing pulseaudio does the trick for the most part, it stays off too if you use YAST