Flash player sound solution

[Chris Hodgins]

Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> On Sun, 13-Mar-2005 at 17:18:13 +0000, Chris Hodgins wrote:
> 
>>Andre Albsmeier wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 12-Mar-2005 at 22:21:35 -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Saturday 12 March 2005 05:42 am, James McNaughton 
>>>><jtmcnaughton at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>Do you have an example (or two or more) of a page that causes the crash? 
>>>>I'd like to test this on 5.3-R. I know I used to have an email around 
>>>>here somewhere with examples ...
>>>
>>>
>>>Speaking of flashplugin crashes: There is some flash content
>>>out there which makes my firefox crash (not due to sound but
>>>for some other reasons). One example is:
>>>
>>>http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5961030392
>>>
>>>I'd like to know if other people also experience crashes
>>>when viewing this page. The flash content isn't obvious
>>>to find: When the page has opened search for the string
>>>"Setzen Sie die Andale Gallery". Directly above is the
>>>flash part. I can only view this page when disabling
>>>the linux-flashplugin :-(
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>	-Andre
>>
>>That worked ok for me without crashing.  One site that I know always 
> 
> 
> Hmm, I think the ebay stuff is very dynamic. Maybe there are
> some local browser settings which influence the output.
> Did you find the flash content in the page?

Yes.  I found it and clicked on a few things and it seemed to be ok.

> 
> 
>>crashes my browser is this one:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/
>>
>>Just click on any of the photos there and the new page will load up and 
>>crash.  If anyone cares I have attached the backtrace from the crash below.
> 
> 
> Same here :-(.
> 
> 	-Andre
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