Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 05:42:43 -0800 (PST) From: James McNaughton <jtmcnaughton@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Flash player sound solution Message-ID: <20050312134243.65565.qmail@web81708.mail.yahoo.com>
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The Problem: Using native Mozilla and linuxpluginwrapper/linux-flashplugin (on 4.10-stable et al) to view flash content results in no sound and occasional Mozilla freezes. The Solution: Run esd. How: I was searching the web for the solution, and got nowhere. There didn't seem to be anyone who had gotten it to work. Linux mailing lists noted a problem with file permissions on /dev/snd or /dev/pcm* depending on the sound system drivers installed. My /dev/pcm* file permissions were all rw to begin with, so this didn't help. I wondered what device the plugin was actually trying to access, so I did "strings /usr/local/lib/linux-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so" and found /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer. Nearby in the list I noticed a few lines relating to esd. From a command line I started esd and went back to view some content that had previously frozen Mozilla, and there was sound coming out my speakers and the browser did not hang. I had long suspected the browser hangs were related to sound in the flash content. My results seem to confirm that suspicion. Jim
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