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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 770

youtube and sound - again...

I have no sound in youtube videos at all... I've looked at some other threads on this and none of them seem to have any solutions that help me...

Any ideas - or threads that I missed in the search...

harlekin

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 408

Re: youtube and sound - again...

If you are referring to the problem that the sound in flash files has a greater delay than the videos, there is no solution as far as I know.

If anyone knows better, please tell me. (:

The only way that _might_ solves the problem is trying out the flashplugin-beta in unstable reposity. But this didn't work for me either.

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Abecedarian

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Registered: 2006-07-30

Posts: 43

Re: youtube and sound - again...

I assume you use Firefox/Bon Echo? I found this solution on a forum, works for me:

Streaming flash videos (ie. youtube, google video) have no sound.

# Flash looks for /usr/lib/libesd.so.1
ln -s /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 /usr/lib/libesd.so.1

# Flash expects /tmp/.esd/socket to exist.
mkdir -p /tmp/.esd/
touch /tmp/.esd/socket

exit from the root account and from the console run: esd & firefox.

Although if esd is already running, sometimes firefox won't start... it's never worked perfectly, I usually only use 'esd & firefox' when I'm viewing flash specifically, not just day-to-day use.

judfilm

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Registered: 2004-02-12

Posts: 229

Re: youtube and sound - again...

FYI - the latest flash beta has sound improvements - v9.0.21.78

harlekin

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 408

Re: youtube and sound - again...

Ah, sorry. I overread the `no sound`. My post is referring to another problem. You can just ignore it

Sorry

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superstoned

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Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 268

Re: youtube and sound - again...

flash beta 2 works perfectly here in konqueror... so i'd try that beta.

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