On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 16 January 2006 09:04, Michael Crute wrote: > > > > So my question would be, is there a way to make flash mix its sounds > > in with the other programs on the computer? I know its possible as I > > have done it before but I can not seem to get it working now. A google > > search seems to get me nowhere. Any thoughts or a nudge in the right > > direction would be much appreciated. > > > Flash still uses OSS to play sounds, and if you are using ALSA then it is > using OSS emulation. I don't know how to do it with other browsers but I use > "aoss firefox" to start firefox. This mixes sounds of Flash pretty well with > any other sound producing app. I can even hear songs while Flash produces its > sound in browser. > > A point to mention here would be that I am not using esd or any other sound > daemon. Just plain jane ALSA with dmix.
Thanks Abhay I will give that a try when I get home today. I assume aoss is part of alsa-utils? (I don't have portage handy to check this out at the moment) On the topic of sound servers. Being fairly ignorant about sound on linux (but willing to learn). Is there a good reason to use a sound server or am I better off to use ALSA directly? What purpose do sound servers serve? -Mike -- ________________________________ Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
