[Bug 242521] [NEW] Media Player intereference on Windows and Ubuntu

[Sethybaby]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Hello,

I have a 1 year old HP Pavilion, Never had any major problems, it's well
protected and Virus/Spyware free. I was running Windows Vista for the
first 10-11 months till a problem occurred. My iTunes one day stopped
playing music.. The sound was working on my pc, and websites and such
were able to play their media but iTunes and Windows Media Player both
had the same problem. I'd push play and the slider that shows the
position in the song wouldn't move. I uninstalled, restarted,
reinstalled, retried all of my media players to no avail. So, I Dual
booted my pc with Linux... and all my media players still do this
intermittently.. I've narrowed it down to something involving FireFox.
Here's what I've found, If I have a media player open and running, I can
open firefox, surf, pause my media player then listen to music online.
However If I try to open a media player while firefox is playing audio
(embedded media or such) the media player, weather it be iTune, Windows
Media Player, Amarok, or RhythmBox won't play any files. I'll push play
and the slider never moves and no audio come out the speaker form the
program.  It seems there's some sort of interference from  FireFox. Any
help would be appreciated.

Thank You,
 Seth Forrestier
seth.forrestier at gmail.com

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 23 18:40:37 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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Media Player intereference on Windows and Ubuntu
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