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#1 2010-02-26 02:14:23
- SomeGuyDude
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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.
And in the midst of such perfection,
I can't help but feel diseased.
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#2 2010-02-26 02:47:01
- n0dix
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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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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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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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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. 
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
Well... that wasn't my suggestion.
But glad it worked out for you.
Your suggestion put me in the right direction to solve the problem 
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#9 2010-04-10 00:34:57
- clu
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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.
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.
Kick out the jams! -- AUR
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