[linux-audio-user] Re: XMMS and Firefox (or Flash?) not playing along nicely

[Nigel Henry]

On Friday 04 August 2006 20:33, Arnold Krille wrote:
> 2006/8/4, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org>:
> > Somehow XMMS and Firefox (or rather Firefox media plugins) seem to
> > compete over sound resources.
> > What's the cause and how can I fix it?
>
> The reason is that Flash and xmms both use old OSS for sound, which
> allows only one app to access the soundcard at a time. Configure your
> XMMS to use alsa and start firefox inside an aoss-environment with the
> command "aoss firefox" instead of plain "firefox".
>
> And bug the authors of every app that is still using OSS as default on
> linux...
>
> Arnold

Hi Arnold. Seeing another post suggesting using aoss for the webbrowsers, I 
changed the command for opera to aoss opera. I'm using a realplayer plugin on 
it for the BBC radioplayer from bbc.co.uk. But what I am finding with aoss, 
is that there is now quite a lot of crackling on the sound. A bit like the 
sound of electrical sparks. 

Now I can listen to Internet radio, and listen to music at the same time, 
which isn't easy, but at least it proves that starting opera with aoss works. 
The problem I had was listening to Internet radio, using realplayer, and 
using Gaim at the same time. The realplayer plugin would grab the soundcard, 
and Gaim had no sounds. When I ended the Internet radio session, Gaim would 
play all it's sounds from the beginning of it's session. all a bit bizarre, 
and quite funny.

Nigel.

This is using an Ensoniq card (ens1371 driver)