Solved: pulse audio support for flash 10 in firefox 3.5.x (no sound and crashes)
Tested with: flashplugin-installer/flashplugin-nonfree combo as well as adobe-flashplayer. Problem: no matter what you try, firefox plays for a short while with no sound and freezes/crashes while attempting to play flash content. Installing/re-installing/etc flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound DOES NOT properly establish a path to a pulse device (I don't care what the maintainer says). See user frustration and bitter angst - rinse, repeat. Solution: apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound follow instructions from this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4638714&postcount=13 As follows: <code> wget http://pulseaudio.vdbonline.net/flashplugin-nonfree-pulse_0.1~000.tar.gz tar xvfz flashplugin-nonfree-pulse_0.1~000.tar.gz cd flashplugin-nonfree-pulse-0.1~000 sudo apt-get install libpulse-dev make sudo make install </code> Note: this is the *ONLY* way I've found to get proper audio out of the flash player under firefox - I tried a lot of things from dozens of posts to cure it. I've followed some of the dancing and prattle between the deb and ubuntu pkg maintainers and ended up pretty disgusted waiting for them to 'coordinate' their assumptions. I don't run pulse as a system daemon, I run it as a user process - was that factored in? I suggest, in order to spare all of us the wear on our stomach lining, that the package maintainers include this code if it is not already -OR- put the conflicting flashplugin-nonfree-pulse pkg sited in the tree. Further, if they have incorporated the code, but have elected an alternate method - that they consider switching to what this code does specifically. It is simple and it just works, at least in my case. -- flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound has incorrect package description https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371418 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs -- universe-bugs mailing list universe-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs