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bibstha

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Registered: 2011-05-17

Posts: 11

[SOLVED] Sound output mutually exclusive to Flash or Other Apps

Hi,

I've faced this issue from the beginning of Arch install. I have an up to date x86_64 system and for flash I am using "flashplugin-prerelease 10.3.162.29-2"
from aur.

The problem is, for Flash to output sound, in any video or audio sites (youtube, bandcamp, etc), the rest of the applications must be stopped.
So say I have Clementine and / or VLC playing, they play fine alongside eachother (can get output from both clementine and vlc at same time).
But Flash only shows video, audio.. nothing.

So I stop Clementine or VLC completely, then Refreshing Youtube will play both video and audio.

Another thing I've noted is, in Gnome3 SoundSettings > Applications (TAB) I can only see Clementine or VLC, but not Firefox / Flash plugin.

What might be wrong?

Last edited by bibstha (2011-07-13 15:53:01)

bibstha

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Registered: 2011-05-17

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Sound output mutually exclusive to Flash or Other Apps

Strangely its working perfect right now. Strange.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: [SOLVED] Sound output mutually exclusive to Flash or Other Apps

What might be wrong?

Pulseaudio probably. Flash uses ALSA by default, and there's no problems on systems without pulseaudio. There's libflashsupport-pulse in AUR, it might do the trick.