64-bit flash no longer produces sound

[Janne Jokitalo]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:12:27PM +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 09/06/11 19:41, Janne Jokitalo wrote:
>> 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!
>
>
> I have no answer to this. All I can say is what I already wrote. The  
> possible tech reasons for this I don't know anything about - my comments  
> are based on simple experience.

Right. Well, thanks anyway for the hints. However, no amount of tweaking of
alsamixer nor it's gui representative (which doesn't really amount to much, as
it controls only some pulseaudio settings, apparently, on this system) made any
difference. The underlying issue still stands, which seems to be that the sound
server doesn't recognize the flash player as an audio source.

> However, the other thing which I will add is that pulseaudio is an  
> "abomination unto Linux" and should be "cast into the depths of Hell".

Heheh. :) Well, the world is not ready yet...

> If you are having sound hassles, install alsamixer or alsamixergui,  
> uninstall pulseaudio, get your sound fixed, and then - if you must have  
> the volume control icon in the taskbar - re-install pulseaudio just to  
> get this icon back.

Thanks, but I'll try to avoid that. After all, we're trying to work with the
mainline developers' choices in the selected software. But we'll just see how
far my patience takes me.

Thanks anyway for your efforts!


-- 
Jaska

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