[linux-audio-user] flash 9 beta

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 11:07 -0700, Brad Fuller wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 11:45 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> >   
> >> finally!
> >> http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/
> >> seems to work here with firefox 1.5.0.7.
> >>
> >> *much* better sound synchronization - i can finally watch stuff on
> >> youtube without screaming in frustration.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Can someone test whether it works with dmix?  I ran strings on the
> > binary and the only ALSA device name I saw was "plughw:0,0" which is
> > worrisome.
> >
> > Is there a way to select the sound device?  I couldn't find one.  Surely
> > it isn't hardcoded to use device 0?
> >   
> wouldn't it use the facility (for lack of a better word) of the browser?
> The current browser's use OSS.
> 

No, it's not the browser that uses OSS but the flash applet.  The flash
player accesses the sound system directly, it does not go through the
browser.

Lee