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#1 2010-02-26 02:14:23

SomeGuyDude
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Registered: 2008-10-09
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Chromium and sound don't play nice together

Arch64, Chromium from the repos.

Long story short, if I play a YouTube video or anything similar, suddenly I can't play ANY sounds elsewhere until I close the browser down again.

Example: listening to music via MPD. I open a YouTube video. It doesn't play. I stop my music and watch the video. Once the video's done, I can't play any music until I shut down Chromium.


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I can't help but feel diseased.

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#2 2010-02-26 02:47:01

n0dix
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Registered: 2009-09-22
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Re: Chromium and sound don't play nice together

same problem in Chromium and  google-chrome.

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#3 2010-02-26 02:50:58

Skripka
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Registered: 2009-02-19
Posts: 555

Re: Chromium and sound don't play nice together

Hmmm...Flash vids work great here using Arch64/KDE4.4/ALSA and google-chrome-dev from AUR.

Are y'all using HTML5 or Flash to view vids, because HTML5 playing of <video> is buggy.

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#4 2010-02-26 04:29:55

SomeGuyDude
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Posts: 271

Re: Chromium and sound don't play nice together

No it's fine on its own, but try to play music in an external program while watching a video. Or watch the video then start your music player. Won't work.


And in the midst of such perfection,
I can't help but feel diseased.

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#5 2010-02-26 06:56:43

tomk
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Re: Chromium and sound don't play nice together

Working fine here - mpg123 playing a tune, youtube (flash, not html5) in chromium.

IIRC, this is because the flash plugin defaults to 'old' OSS i.e. using alsa oss emulation. Unload and blacklist the snd-*-oss modules and try again.

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#6 2010-02-26 15:57:36

n0dix
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Registered: 2009-09-22
Posts: 956

Re: Chromium and sound don't play nice together

I solved my problem, i have to add the alsa daemon in rc.conf file.
Thanks for the suggestion.

Last edited by n0dix (2010-02-26 15:58:39)

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#7 2010-02-26 18:02:30

tomk
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Re: Chromium and sound don't play nice together

Well... that wasn't my suggestion. smile

But glad it worked out for you.

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#8 2010-02-26 18:42:20

n0dix
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Re: Chromium and sound don't play nice together

tomk wrote:

Well... that wasn't my suggestion. smile

But glad it worked out for you.

Your suggestion put me in the right direction to solve the problem wink

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#9 2010-04-10 00:34:57

clu
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Registered: 2008-07-05
Posts: 40

Re: Chromium and sound don't play nice together

tomk wrote:

Working fine here - mpg123 playing a tune, youtube (flash, not html5) in chromium.

IIRC, this is because the flash plugin defaults to 'old' OSS i.e. using alsa oss emulation. Unload and blacklist the snd-*-oss modules and try again.

This works for me. If I don't have these modules blacklisted then I am able to reproduce the same problem as OP has. With the modules blacklisted everything works as it should.


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