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

[Johannes Mario Ringheim]

By the way, version 9 of Flash Player for Linux is going to use ALSA and 
lots of other cool stuff:

http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/07/api_review_1.html

It seems this is gonna be a very much better flashplayer than we've had 
in the past... (Not that I like Flash, though...)

-johannes.

Florin Andrei wrote:
> Somehow XMMS and Firefox (or rather Firefox media plugins) seem to
> compete over sound resources.
> 
> If I start XMMS and then, say, go to YouTube to watch a video, there's
> no sound from the browser. I have to kill XMMS, browse again, then it
> works.
> I am under the impression that it only happens with Flash movies, but
> those are anyway the only ones that play directly in the browser - for
> the other formats I use the MediaPlayerConnectivity plugin for Firefox
> and configured it to launch Xine for WMV, Qt and Real movies.
> 
> What's the cause and how can I fix it?
> 
> Fedora Core 5
> ALSA-1.0.11
> XMMS-1.2.10
> Firefox-1.5.0.4
> Flash-7.0r63
> 


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