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

[Ken Restivo]

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On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:15:43PM +0100, Michael TD Nelson 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.

Heh, thanks!

> 
> I mostly use JACK; is there any hope of getting it to work with JACK? If
> not, maybe some sort of desktop sound mixer that uses ALSA?

I've never been able to get Flash to work with JACK. I read of a weird jackplug technique that was supposed to work but it never did for me, and I've long since lost the link.

> 
> 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's what worked for me.

> 
> Is it possible to do this in a permanent and reliable fashion? How would
> I go about it?

I took a hardware solution: I grabbed a 1/8"-to-RCA cable, and plugged the output of the onboard sound card into the input of my good, JACK-enabled sound interface. Then when I wanted to listen to "system" sound (i.e. flash), I'd just pot up the inputs on the JACK-enabled card.

On my new laptop, the on-board audio was acting so weird that I just blacklsited the hda-audio module, and I don't use this solution anymore.  Instead, I use youtube-dl, which is fantastic, and just watch them in "mplayer -ao jack".

- -ken
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