[Klug-general] Flash player sound [NOT-SOLVED]

[stuartbrand.co.uk]

Try this
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/susenovell-60/flash-videos-in-firefox-without-any-sound-opensuse-11.1-705366/


On 23 December 2009 at 00:14 Nathan Friend <nathan.friend at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK I have
> 
> alsa
> alsa-firmware
> alsa-oss
> alsa-plugins
> alsa-utils
> libesd0
> libpulse-mainloop-glib0
> libpulse0
> libxine1-pulse
> 
> There is an alsa-plugins-pulse but yast says it would cause a conflict with
> KDE-pure if I install it, mmm OK then doesn't sound good.
> 
> I'm not really sure I need to install anything as Flash sound works fine
> when I run firefox as root, it's got to be a permissions thing, hasn't it?
> 
> Konqueror has the same problem too.
> 
> When a flash video is playing npviewer.bin is taking up about 30% CPU time,
> running under my user.
> 
> Nathan.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:45 PM, james morris <james at jwm-art.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > >Pulseaudio is another sound server like ESD. I thought ESD was on the way
> > >out in favour of pulse. Dunno, I don't use either.
> >
> > According to the description of the debian pulseaudio package:
> >
> > "PulseAudio... is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with
> > much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall
> > architecture."
> >
> > And in Debian there's a pulseaudio-esound-compat package.
> >
> > Maybe you should try installing PulseAudio to replace as much ESD/esound
> > stuff as possible.
> >
> > I'm only going down this track, because while googling to get an idea
> > about the problem you've got, one person seemed to solve the problem by
> > installing an ALSA-esd package as I previously suggested.
> >
> > Unfortunately I'm not at all familiar with Suse.
> >
> > james.
> >
> > >>> On 21/12/2009, "Nathan Friend" <nathan.friend at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> >Yes, I've tried that no luck.  I guess it's a permissions thing I just
> > >>> don't
> > >>> >know which files are affected.
> > >>> >
> > >>> >
> > >>> >On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Stuart Brand <
> > stuart at stuartbrand.co.uk
> > >>> >wrote:
> > >>> >
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 /usr/lib/libesd.so.1 && sudo mkdir
> > >>> >> -p /tmp/.esd/ && sudo touch /tmp/.esd/socket
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >> On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 22:40 +0000, Stuart Brand wrote:
> > >>> >> > WTF?WTF????? my sound has stopped now as well, same flash,
> > fedora...
> > >>> >> > looks like it's maybe firefox 3.5.5 as I'm sure thats the only
> > update?
> > >>> >> > Grr.... time to ask google to come to the recue
> > >>> >> >
> > >>> >> > On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 16:10 +0000, Nathan Friend wrote:
> > >>> >> > > Afternoon,
> > >>> >> > > Flash player sound only works if I run firefox as root, any
> > ideas?
> > >>> >> > >
> > >>> >> > > SUSE 11.2
> > >>> >> > > Firefox 3.5.5
> > >>> >> > > Flash 10.0 r32
> > >>> >> > >
> > >>> >> > > Cheers,
> > >>> >> > >
> > >>> >> > > Nathan.
> >
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