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Boris Bolgradov

Member

From: Bulgaria

Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 185

Alsaequal and the YouTube player

Does anyone use alsaequal?
I tried it today and I found out that the buttons on the YouTube player are all moved to the bottom left corner, some over the others. Does anyone have a solution to it?
Screenshot: Click

Edit: To use the equalizer I had to create .asoundrc with the following content:

ctl.equal {
      type equal;
}

pcm.plugequal {
      type equal;
      #slave.pcm "plughw:0,0";
      # using dmix allows multiple apps to use the sound card simultaneously
      slave.pcm "plug:dmix"
}

pcm.!default {
    type plug;
    slave.pcm plugequal;
}

Edit 2: The first video I open for the Firefox session is loaded properly, until I interact with the player (that is move the mouse over it). Then the controls get moved and stay in the corner for the whole session. Not even reloading the page, or cleaning the cache is getting them back to their places.

Edit 3: The versions, duh. Had to post them in the first place..

flashplugin 10.3.183.7-1
firefox 6.0-1
alsaequal 0.6-3
alsa-lib 1.0.24.1-1
alsa-plugins 1.0.24-2
alsa-utils 1.0.24.2-3

Last edited by Boris Bolgradov (2011-08-27 15:31:57)

trialaros

Member

Registered: 2015-10-24

Posts: 1

Re: Alsaequal and the YouTube player

I've had this problem on youtube for some time now and have just discovered the relation to alsaequal.

All control buttons on the youtube player are stacked at the bottom left one over the other.

I resolved it by using Steve Harris' mbeq ladspa plugin from http://plugin.org.uk/ (package: swh-plugins) through the alsaequal interface.

Part of my ~/.asoundrc:

pcm.!default {
        type plug
        slave.pcm "mbeq"
#         slave.pcm "equal"
}
ctl.!default {
        type hw;
        card 0;
}
pcm.mbeq {
        type equal
        library "/usr/lib/ladspa/mbeq_1197.so"
        module "mbeq"
        controls ".alsambeq.bin"
        channels 2
        slave.pcm "plug:dmix"
}
ctl.mbeq {
        type equal
        library "/usr/lib/ladspa/mbeq_1197.so"
        module "mbeq"
        controls ".alsambeq.bin"
        channels 2
}
# pcm.equal {
#         type equal
#         slave.pcm "plug:dmix"
# }
# ctl.equal {
#         type equal
# }

I'm using Debian Linux by the way. The above works for Archlinux as well, I suppose.

Keywords: youtube alsaequal controls buttons align left stacked garbled asoundrc mbeq linux

ewaller

Administrator

From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,601

Re: Alsaequal and the YouTube player

Trialaros,

Welcome to the Arch Linnux forums, and thank you for your contribution.

Do watch for old posts.  I am hoping that Boris Bolgradov is not still looking for a solution four years later
Closing this old thread.

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