[SOLVED] Flash conflicts with pulse

orlox · 2010-09-07 04:39:10

A while ago, I posted this:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=102976

Basically, I couldn't play movies in totem or listen to music with rhythmbox or banshee. At the moment I thought it was simply a pulseaudio problem or misconfiguration, but it "fixed" itself so I closed that topic. However, I started experiencing this again, and now I know the reason. Flash doesn't play along well with pulse. I can't play simultaneosly sound with flash and anything else, and when I listen something with flash, I cant listen sound (or watch videos) anywhere else until I close the browser.

Googling this, I found out that I need libflashsupport-pulse, which is present in AUR, but I can't install it because it requires flashplugin, which I haven't been able to find.
I have nspluginwrapper-flash from AUR to provide flash.

Anyone has this same issue? How can I solve it?

Cheers!

Last edited by orlox (2010-09-12 16:02:18)

x33a · 2010-09-07 05:53:03

flashplugin is in the extra repository. Try installing it first and then installing libflashsupport-pulse, and see if it fixes the issue.

But if you are using 64-bit arch, then it is available in the new multilib repo.

karol · 2010-09-07 10:40:20

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fla … d_playback

orlox · 2010-09-07 15:34:30

I have blacklisted snd-pcm-oss and I installed flashplugin from multilib, and libflashsupport-pulse from AUR, but I still have the same issue...

ehlo · 2010-09-07 16:15:31

I have the same problem

R00KIE · 2010-09-07 18:02:39

Everything you need to get flash working properly is in the repos, make sure you have the following packages installed (you will need to activate the multilib repo):
pulseaudio, lib32-pulseaudio, alsa-lib, lib32-alsa-lib, alsa-plugins and lib32-alsa-plugins.

Try using this /etc/asound.conf

pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

and everything should work fine, at least it works for me™.

orlox · 2010-09-12 16:01:57

Left this thread a little bit dumped due to other responsabilities...sorry for that...

I couldnt manage to solve this problem, after applying all the suggestions mentioned here. My "soution" however, was to install lightspark from AUR, to use as a replacement for flash. As far as I've seem, it works almost flawlessly with all the flash usage I need, and has no issues with pulseaudio.

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#1 2010-09-07 04:39:10

[SOLVED] Flash conflicts with pulse

#2 2010-09-07 05:53:03

Re: [SOLVED] Flash conflicts with pulse

#3 2010-09-07 10:40:20

Re: [SOLVED] Flash conflicts with pulse

#4 2010-09-07 15:34:30

Re: [SOLVED] Flash conflicts with pulse

#5 2010-09-07 16:15:31

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#6 2010-09-07 18:02:39

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#7 2010-09-12 16:01:57

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