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e996

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Registered: 2015-10-01

Posts: 9

[SOLVED] Chromium, Opera flash problems

I'm having a very strange problem where I can't open multiple flash instances in Chromium (or Opera). For example if I try to open two youtube videos, or youtube and soundcloud, only the one loaded first will load. the second (and anything after as well) just won't load, but gives no error messages of any kind. Eventually youtube says "If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device." This does not solve the problem.
I have pepper-flash version 25.0.0.171-1 installed, running both the latest versions of Chromium and Opera. I have several extensions installed, but disabling them does not affect the problem.
Any suggestions?

Last edited by e996 (2017-06-05 02:38:27)

c00ter

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From: Alaskan in Washington State

Registered: 2014-08-28

Posts: 395

Re: [SOLVED] Chromium, Opera flash problems

Are you sure they're flash? Do you have widevine installed?

Regards

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e996

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Registered: 2015-10-01

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] Chromium, Opera flash problems

As it turns out this is not a flash problem, just an incorrectly configured ALSA. I needed to set up dmix so that multiple sound sources are allowed to access the sound card at the same time. Solved by setting up my ~/.asoundrc like so:

pcm.!default {
        type plug
        slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

pcm.dmixer  {
        type dmix
        ipc_key 1024
        slave {
                pcm "hw:2,0"
                period_time 0
                period_size 1024
                buffer_size 4096
                rate 44100
        }
        bindings {
                0 0
                1 1
        }
}

ctl.dmixer {
        type hw
        card 2
}