No sound in Flash, online help not solving the problem

[jerry]

Dave M G wrote:
> Ubuntu Users,
>
> I discovered recently that I can no longer hear any sound when playing 
> Flash videos in FireFox.
>
> Sound works with every other application, so this is specific to Flash. 
> According to Adobe's web site, I have version 9,0,31,0 installed.
> http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/
>
> Of course, I hit the web, and came across this web page:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=204022
>
> And tried the following, as suggested:
> dave at homebase:~/Desktop$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 
> /usr/lib/libesd.so.1
> ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/lib/libesd.so.1' to 
> `/usr/lib/libesd.so.0': File exists
> dave at homebase:~/Desktop$ sudo mkdir -p /tmp/.esd/
> dave at homebase:~/Desktop$ sudo touch /tmp/.esd/socket
>
> Didn't work.
>
> In another thread:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=526551
> ...it suggested to add my username to the audio group in /etc/group. My 
> name was already there.
>
> I tried editing /etc/firefox/firefoxrc and changing FIREFOX-DSP="aoss" 
> to "alsa". Still no joy.
>
> So then it comes to this horrible web page:
> http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Player:Additional_Interface_Support_for_Linux#Source_code
> which apparently solves some problems, but it's so technical that I'm 
> wondering if I'm on the wrong path here. I mean, is getting Flash to run 
> really supposed to be this complicated?
>
> Anyway, I tried finding the dependencies they require. I couldn't find 
> ICU, or any development package for OSS in Synaptic.
>
> I tried downloading their script and giving it a shot anyway:
> $ cc -shared -O2 -Wall -Werror -licuuc -lssl flashsupport.c -o 
> libflashsupport.so
> flashsupport.c:158:25: error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> flashsupport.c: In function ‘FPX_Init’:
> flashsupport.c:245: warning: implicit declaration of function 
> ‘SSL_library_init’
> flashsupport.c: At top level:
> flashsupport.c:268: error: syntax error before ‘SSL’
> ...
>
> It goes on and on like this.
>
> Man... I just want to hear stuff in Flash. I don't know which clowns are 
> responsible for making it such a hassle, but this seems way, way more 
> problematic than it should be.
>
> Anyway... griping aside. Given the above, what should I do next?
>
>   
I had the same problem with not being able to get sound when playing a 
flash file. I went to the adobe site per your link and saw that version 
9,0,31,0 was the latest; but at the top of the page it said that I had 
version 7 something. I downloaded and installed the latest version and 
now I can hear flash files again.

Thanks for posting about this problem. It helped me. I hope you will 
find a solution.

Thanks
Jerry