Sound quits working in Movie Player and VLC after watching videos in Firefox

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 02:41:53PM -0700, Ray Parrish wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I hope someone can help me figure out why playing videos in Firefox 
> shuts down my ability to use any other players to hear audio in videos 
> in other players, or when trying to listen to mp3s without rebooting first.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578

Read especially the libflash stuff. 

My very similar sound troubles seem to have gone away with 9.04. (Only to be
traded for miserable video performance).
 
-- 
Hal