64-bit flash no longer produces sound

[Janne Jokitalo]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:49:56AM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 09/06/11 11:19, Janne Jokitalo wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> noticed two flash updates during the last couple of days. I had my chrome open
>> for several days, so am not sure when the symptom actually started, but after a
>> reboot, flash videos no longer produce sound. This can be also verified by
>> indicator-sound-service, which says "No application is playing or recording
>> audio" when a flash video is being played.
>>
>> Sound works, though, which I verified with both spotify and rhythmbox.
>>
>> Besides chrome failing to play audio, so do both firefox and opera.
<snip>
> All boiled down to the difference in having the audio and video settings  
> not properly set.
>
> Happened to me a while back: some upgrades reset the volume of the  
> channels to zero.
>
> Go into your settings (alsamixer or alsamixergui) and while Firefox is  
> using flash to play some file on YouTube, say, fiddle with the channel  
> settings and see which one(s) have been reset.

Hi Basil,

thanks for the tip. I will try this when I get home.

Just to clarify, it's possibly using different channels for audio than audio
within video? And if so, then it is enough to fool sound system in a way that it
no longer thinks anything is playing?

Thanks!


-- 
Jaska

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