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jomen

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Registered: 2010-03-18

Posts: 20

[SOLVED] have adobe flash-plugin output sound to esd on remote server

Hi,

I'm using a notebook with poor speakers.
To have good sound I set up an OpenWRT Router which has the good speakers connected to it.
It runs mpd, so I can play my music throug nice speakers and control it with my notebook or something else via network.

It also runs esd - so I can hear the sound of a movie I watch on the laptop through the good speakers.
I use mplayer and its esd output for this (had to build mplayer with esd enabled).

That all works well.

I often watch flash clips ala youtube and would like to hear their sound through my good speakers also.

But I have not yet managed that - tried many things but flash-sound still comes out of my notebooks poor speakers.

ESPEAKER environment variable is set - and as mentioned, output using mplayer works nicely

I tried creating ~/.mozilla/firefox/rc and setting FIREFOX_DSP="aoss". Tried "esd" and "alsa" too - could not find documentation on what values are valid.

Zero effect.

Tried creating /tmp/.esd/socket - no success.

Heard, that the flash-plugin would look for libesddsp.so.1 and libesd.so.1 - so I symlinked to the existing libesddsp.so.0 and libesd.so.0 - no effect.

My hope is that someone knows how to achieve what I described and want - play flash-sound through a remote esd.

I run Gnome and the system is fully updated apart from the kernel, which is still 2.6.34 due to the "no mouse pointer" issue with the newest kernel still ...

Anything you need to know - please ask.

Thanks for your time!

[addition] using pulseaudio is not an option, because I cannot make it work (or even compile) for the receiving end, the OpenWRT Router - esd is the only option for remote sound AFAIK - and even this I had to build myself because its not in the "official" release

Last edited by jomen (2010-09-22 08:18:38)

heftig

Developer

From: Germany

Registered: 2010-04-19

Posts: 159

Re: [SOLVED] have adobe flash-plugin output sound to esd on remote server

PulseAudio supports output to remote ESD servers. Check http://taint.org/2008/02/03/222043a.html

jomen

Member

Registered: 2010-03-18

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] have adobe flash-plugin output sound to esd on remote server

It does?
Why did I exclude this from my thinking

So this seems to be the perfect answer - I'll try.

Thank you!

jomen

Member

Registered: 2010-03-18

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] have adobe flash-plugin output sound to esd on remote server

Thank you very much again - works perfectly.

I could and should have thought of that solution.
But sometimes we like making life a litte harder than neccessary.

I'm glad I asked though, because with your answer came the complete solution.

All the best!