On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 16:32:46 -0500, Tom Ashley wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 12:02 -0700, John Schmidt wrote:
[...] > > If you are using xine as your engine, and trying to play mp3s, .... If you > > are > > using other engines, this fix shouldn't resolve your problem. > > > > John > > > Hi John, > > Thanks for the response. I can play the mp3s withouth any problem. My > problem appears to be limited to flash audio. The default configuration for iceweasel is ICEWEASEL_DSP="none" which means it will try to play audio by accessing the ALSA /dev/snd/* devices directly. (You can change this setting in /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc, as Andrei has already pointed out.) If I run iceweasel in this default configuration and play a youtube video (with sound, of course) then I see this: $ lsof -w | egrep 'snd|dsp' npviewer. 9886 florian mem CHR 116,16 7092 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p npviewer. 9886 florian 63r CHR 116,33 7000 /dev/snd/timer npviewer. 9886 florian 64u CHR 116,16 7092 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p (I edited the output above to trim excessive whitespace.) This means that iceweasel's flash plugin cannot play sound if some other process is blocking these devices. If you are using KDE or Gnome then the devices are probably under the control of a sound daemon (artsd or esd, respectively). Run the "lsof -w | egrep 'snd|dsp'" command before you start iceweasel to see which process is blocking the device(s). The first quick test is to kill the blocking process and check if this allows iceweasel to play sound in flash movies. If a sound daemon is indeed responsible for locking the devices then you can either tell it to share the device (this is possible in KDE, I don't know about Gnome's esd) or you can try to configure iceweasel for playing audio via the sound daemon by putting one of these into /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc: ICEWEASEL_DSP="artsdsp" # for KDE's artsd or ICEWEASEL_DSP="esddsp" # for Gnome's esd Iceweasel has to be restarted after changing the settings. I took these options from "man iceweasel" but I never tried them myself. (I told my artsd not to hog the ALSA devices and this works fine with iceweasel's default DSP="none" setting.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
