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From: Mountain View, California

Registered: 2010-05-31

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Flash and Chromium + Sound (ALSA) issue~

I am not able to find out why, but once in a while sound within flash will stop in my Chromium, and I need to shut down the browser and open a new one. It's annoying since I keep browsers open a long time with important websites open etc.

Does anyone have this similar problem? It appears to only happen with flash and everything else works fine.

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From: Israel

Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 48

Re: Flash and Chromium + Sound (ALSA) issue~

Are you using ALSA by any chance?
Do you have `alsa-oss` if so?
Do you have other applications running the background?

wirian

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Registered: 2010-10-07

Posts: 3

Re: Flash and Chromium + Sound (ALSA) issue~

I actually have a same kind of problem with flash. Sound stops working after a while using firefox and to fix it I need to restart the browser or kill the Firefox flash plugin container.

Just noticed that I don't have 'alsa-oss' installed. Let's see if it helps.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Flash and Chromium + Sound (ALSA) issue~

ALSA's emulation of OSS bypasses dmix, so alsa-oss will only increase the likelihood of blocking.

Try my config.

wirian

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Registered: 2010-10-07

Posts: 3

Re: Flash and Chromium + Sound (ALSA) issue~

Try my config.

Ok, used your config as ~/.asoundrc and the problem changed.

Now there's sound but occasionally the sound in flash get's stuck in something like intervals of the length of a second.

wirian

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Registered: 2010-10-07

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Re: Flash and Chromium + Sound (ALSA) issue~

After changing the dmix rate from 48000 to 44100 the sound in flash has been ok for a while.