Flash player sound solution

[Chris Hodgins]

Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 05:58:48PM +0100, 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.
>>>>
>>
>>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 :-(
> 
> 
> That page worked for me, but...
> 
> 
> There are a few pages out there that will crash FreeBSD native firefox
> with linuxpluginwrapper, at least.   The problem doesn't occur in Linux,
> and most of the time, these sites will work with FreeBSD's linux-opera
> (and the linuxpluginwrapper).
> 
> 
> http://www.tvguide.com 
> http://www.espn.com 
> 
> are two examples that always crash it for me, and apparently for most
> poeple on BSD forums.
> 
> 

Interesting.  Both of those sites hang but don't crash as such.  Wierd.

Chris