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confuseh

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Registered: 2015-08-14

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[SOLVED] Skype loses sound when playing sound in firefox

I find this quite weird, so basically when I play some sound in firefox (whether its youtube or whatever) Skype and couple other applications lose sound completely which only gets restored after firefox is closed.

Last edited by confuseh (2015-08-19 15:43:23)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Skype loses sound when playing sound in firefox

Are you using alsa, PA or ...? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Skype#Skype_sound
Are you using flash for youtube or html5?

confuseh

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Registered: 2015-08-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Skype loses sound when playing sound in firefox

Are you using alsa, PA or ...? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Skype#Skype_sound
Are you using flash for youtube or html5?

Oh, sorry.
Using PA and HTML5 youtube

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Skype loses sound when playing sound in firefox

alsa-plugins and pulseaudio-alsa plugins are installed? you sure you use a html5 stream? if you are do other gstreamer 1 based players lead to the same result?

confuseh

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Registered: 2015-08-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Skype loses sound when playing sound in firefox

alsa-plugins and pulseaudio-alsa plugins are installed? you sure you use a html5 stream? if you are do other gstreamer 1 based players lead to the same result?

alsa-plugins installed: no
pulseaudio-alsa installed: no
installing them now
its 100% html5 stream
gonna check the other gstreamer 1 based players if same results is achieved

edit: installing pulseaudio-alsa & alsa-plugins fixed it. Thanks !

Last edited by confuseh (2015-08-14 23:14:00)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Skype loses sound when playing sound in firefox

Firefox usually uses pulseaudio directly if it is a html5 stream, flash will use alsa and has to be wrapped with the alsa-plugins/pulseaudio-alsa so either your gstreamer is misconfigured or the html5 stream was, in fact, a flash stream. However don't forget to prepend SOLVED to the title of your thread