Hi,
I've followed this bug reporting status and installed the latest version
of flash (at the time of this writing, v. 10.2), adhering to Message #35
by CJ van den Berg. However, the plugin does not yet support pulseaudio
in the sense that it does not register itself into pulseaudio server. It
seems it still accesses the alsa driver directly.
This behavior does not break or crash the pulseaudio system, though. If
the flash plugin starts playing when there is still an application
playing on the pulse server, it will still play the video but no sound
will come out. While the flash video is still being let to play and the
application on the pulse server is paused or stopped, the video will
produce sound at whatever point it is on. If the video is paused and the
flash player is still on the browser's page, the application on the
pulse server won't be able to play back again, but nothing crashes.
While both of these flash player and applicaiton on the pulse server are
still running, the application will resume playing if the flash player
is no longer on the browser's page (by turning to another page that has
no flash player on it), without having to close the browser.
To me, the meaning of "support" is the ability of the flash plugin to
register itself into the pulse server and to become one of its
applications. Although in all practicality I won't be listening to two
different sources of sound, but in all technicality, what good is a
sound server if it is not used by applications?
--
Jo Huta
