[LAU] Audio output from Flash plugin...?

[Michael TD Nelson]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 19:42 -0500, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/16/07, Michael TD Nelson <m_nels at gmx.net> wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         
>         Following Ken Restivo's recent post linking to some youtube
>         videos, I'd
>         like to get some audio output from Firefox's Flash plugin.
>         
>         I mostly use JACK; is there any hope of getting it to work
>         with JACK? 
> 
> Nope.  The ALSA-Jack Plugin seems to not agree with it and it crashes
> firefox anytime I go to a site with audio.  If I am lucky it crashes
> it before outputting LOTS of LOUD audio into my monitors.
>  
> 
>         If
>         not, maybe some sort of desktop sound mixer that uses ALSA?
> 
> Don't know of one that would do what I _think_ you are looking for
> myself, course that doesn't say much in the Linux 
>         
>         Maybe an appropriate setup for me in the long-term would be to
>         use the
>         onboard soundcard for general desktop sound (using some sort
>         of simple
>         sound mixer?) and JACK with one (or more) of my RME cards for
>         audio
>         work.
> 
> That is going to be my next move in fact, I will be routing the
> internal sound into the line ins on my RME, and using its mixer to
> route that to the appropriate output for my DA.  Should work fine as
> long as you set the onboard to the alsa default card, and specify in
> qjackctl to use the RME. 
> 
>  
>         
>         I am trying out various desktop environments and window
>         managers at the
>         moment, and haven't settled on anything yet. Maybe I will use
>         KDE or
>         GNOME when I want to use my machine as a general purpose
>         workstation,
>         and something like fluxbox for audio.
> 
> Side Note: Try out e17. 
> 
> 
> Have fun.
> 
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