On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Rob Savoye wrote: > Willy Gommel wrote: > > I first realized that I was getting no sound via any Flash file about a > > month ago. At first I tried enlisting the tech support of Adobe, which > > proved ineffective. Now, I need to try you. > > Just to ask, is this a problem with the Adobe player or Gnash ? :-) > Various versions of the Adobe player had issues with PulseAudio, which > is now the default for most distributions.
Actually, right now it's with both of them. > > somethnig in the Flash player itself which, of course, will not reinstall > > on my AMD64 machine. So one of their techs conveniently pointed me to a > > page where your own efforts are located -- so here I am! > > Which page did they point you to ? Funny... They sent me to http://www.linux.com/feature/54218 . > > softare installs and works, so far as I know -- at least the test file I > > have been using displays the silent video, as did the Adobe product. > > Which version of Gnash on which distribution ? Did you build Gnash > from source, or use a package ? Oop;s -- sorry. I should have mentioned this. I'm using Debian and installed their package for Testing. The installation system describes it as being version 0.8.4-2. > > So my question is simple: What might I have missed in, e.g., the kernel > > set-up? How can I get my sound card to actually deliver PCM sound to the > > speakers from a Flash file? > > Flash audio is MP3, so for Gnash, you probably need to install ffmpeg > or the ffmpeg-gstreamer plugin, which is where the codec support code > lives. > > So you've tested your machine, and you can play MP3 music with xmms or > rhythmbox or whatever ? When using Gnash, does the right click menu show > that sound is enabled or disabled ? Yes, I have no problem playing MP3 files at all, using, e.g., Kaffeine. Gnash's right-click menu has a checkmark next to Sound, which I presume means it's enabled. N.B.: When attempting to play a sound-only file, such as a news item from NPR, the problem is that the item never begins and, consequently, never finishes. > - rob - Thanks again very much, Rob! I do indeed appreciate this. -- .............................................................. Willy Gommel www.wg3.net _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
