On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:56 PM, chris (fool) mccraw <gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:18, Mike Connors <mconno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm running Debian Sid. I'm thinking the problem lies in the flashplayer >> plugin. Has anyone else experienced this? > > yup. for the past couple of years, flash has worked really poorly on > my 64bit machines (i got worse results with the native 64bit version > than the 32bit version, and in opera as well as firefox).
I haven't run 64-bit in a long time, but I constantly have this problem with Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Firefox also has a problem with the way spawned applications inherit *all* of Firefox's open file descriptors, whether you need them or not. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147659 This is why you might have to close, say, Okular or Acrobat, in order to get access to your audio devices. The flash audio-corruption thing bugs me continuously though. --Rogan > they're all > varying versions of ubuntu, but sometimes the audio just disappears > (well, it never starts, more like) or gets stuck in a > techno-music-like-stutter of a half second or so of the actual audio > stream. > > most of the 'missing audio' problems are attributable to something > else having /dev/dsp open and not sharing, so i can often fix by > killing that process, killing the plugin/nspluginwrapper PID, and > reloading the page. > > youtube is most likely to work well, every other site that uses more > than one flash widget (usually multiple banner ads) are most likely to > show problems. though actually, my problem is most often the flash > player hanging (and freezing the entire browser, though the browser > recovers after i kill the plugin) entirely rather than video > continuing without audio in the middle of doing something. > > it's gotten so i browse without plugins enabled most of the time. sigh. > > i just chalked it up to "flash on 64bit linux doesn't work well". > perhaps this isn't the case, but i've never found a good solution, > despite trying many workarounds as suggested in the ubuntu forums. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug