Pulseaudio + Flash Plugin - No Audio

pyther · 2011-04-11 23:31:31

So I am at a lost here. I can't get any audio from the flash plugin.

I know alsa is working with pulse because I can run mplayer song.mp3 -ao alsa and watch a html 5 video in firefox without an issue.

This leads me to think that flash is somehow using oss. Anyways I'm on x86_64 using the pure 64bit plugin.

Not sure what else to try...

~pyther

my0pic · 2011-04-12 00:44:23

Do you have libflashsupport-pulse installed as suggested in the wiki?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … sh_Content

pyther · 2011-04-12 13:31:47

No. It is my understanding that Flash 10 has pulse support and at the very least should have alsa support.

Also there hasn't been an update on the source code since 2008 and I don't understand how it works. How can we modify a closed source application? Can someone explain how this pkg/program works?

wonder · 2011-04-12 13:40:43

do you have alsa-plugins ?

pyther · 2011-04-12 13:48:02

Yes alsa stuff works.

mplayer song.mp3 -ao alsa

and firefox (html5 videos) gives audio. Which makes this problem kinda strange.

Last edited by pyther (2011-04-12 13:49:09)

Doctor Drive · 2011-04-12 14:52:38

I had the same problem but I didn't read wiki...
Lucky to come across this thread.

lib32-alsa-plugins

Solves for me (lib32-libcanberra-pulse i had already installed...)

Last edited by Doctor Drive (2011-04-12 14:53:05)

pyther · 2011-04-12 15:03:17

But are you using the flash plugin from multilib? The native flash plugin shouldn't need any lib32 stuff.

Note: I have the flash plugin from multilib working (uses ndsiwrapper, not native!)

Doctor Drive · 2011-04-12 17:19:37

Oh, sry that's right. I'm using the multilib one.

Beelzebud · 2011-04-12 17:50:19

I really wish Pulse wasn't required for Gnome 3. This thread seems very familiar to the experience I had with Pulse over a year ago...

pyther · 2011-04-12 22:35:14

I know this is gonna come as a shocker, but I don't use gnome and their is nothing forcing me to use pulse. However, I do think pulse will be able to offer me some features that alsa and oss won't be able to (aka network sound).

thedownstem · 2011-04-22 20:59:36

This fixed it for me.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Br … d_in_Flash

firekage · 2015-09-01 21:01:45

Sorry for refreshing but i had similar problem on certain webpages. For an exmaple, everything worked like a charm when i watched content from Youtube, but when i watched something not on Youtube, namely this site:
http://www.cda.pl/

i had no sound at all, and in kmix Fiefox, as a browser, was not even listed (it is when watching something from youtube). I thought that it is something wrong with setting pulse/alsa and so on. In order to have working flash, on certain webpages, we have to install libpulsea-alsa package because this package gives as ~/.asoundrc. But in ~/.asoundrc there is in my opinion, a mistake made. Pulseaudio-alsa is configured to use hw in this file. I changed it to pulse

[firekage@arch_desktop ~]$ cat ~/.asoundrc
#~/.asoundrc

pcm.!default {
    #type hw
    #card 2
    type pulse
    hint.description "Default_Audio_Device"
}
 
ctl.!default {
   #type hw
   #card 2
   type pulse
}

and now my flash works with sound. I can watch youtube (with standard setup as ~/.asoundrc was being created by installing libpulse-alsa package) and other webpages that uses flash with sound (like the one mentioned above). Now in kmix when i launched two files: one from youtube; one from cda.pl i have two apps being shown: firefox (for youtube) and this is named CubebUtils AudioStreams; Alsa-plugin [plugin-container] Alsa Playback devices for the other flash content not from youtube.

Hope this help.

WorMzy · 2015-09-02 08:12:28

I'm glad you fixed your problem, but this is a four year old thread; please don't necrobump.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

Closing.

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