[LAU] Wine + Firefox + Flash == No Audio with ALSA

[david]

Ken Restivo wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:54:32PM -1000, david wrote:
>> Ken Restivo wrote:
>>> I've successfully gotten Firefox to run on Wine with Adobe Flash 
>>> (presumably so that I can actually see people's websites, and
>>> listen to their music. Sheesh.). This is on a 32-bit system.
>> And I use Firefox on Linux with Adobe Flash to listen to music and
>> watch videos. Any particular reason why you're using the Windows
>> version for FF via WINE?
>> 
>>> But no sound. WineCfg seems to think that the only drivers
>>> available are dmix, but I don't have dmix configured, or running,
>>> and I do NOT want dmix at all!
>> I've never tried to do anything involving sound with WINE, so
>> haven't a clue ...
> 
> Hmm. Still not a-werkin'.
> 
> youtube-dl works perfectly for downloading YouTube, but that's not
> why I want Flash. I need Flash so I can finally go to people's
> goddamned MySpace pages and listen to their music. And see Facebook
> and MySpace videos.

Hmmm, playing MySpace music from Flogging Molly 
<http://www.myspace.com/floggingmolly> right now in FF with Linux Flash 
Player 10, no performance problem whatsoever.

Also a video of the Michael Jackson memorial. My only unhappiness about 
MJ's death is he didn't take Britney, Madonna and the rest of the 
"artists" of crap pop music with him.

Don't have a Facebook login, so can't test that.

> And DailyKosTV videos. And to see bands' and
> labels' websites, which too often show up as big grey squares on my
> browser, with nothing in them: too many of them are Flash-only.

What distro are you using? Debian Lenny here, with not RT kernel.

My recent work installing an audio distro on what is now the 
synth/effects box makes me think that Ubuntu is about at the end of its 
life as an audio platform. Ubuntu seems to be steering away from 
supporting the needs of pro audio. For instance, trying their RT-kernel 
on a fresh UbuntuStudio install was sufficient to hose it ...

> The Linux version of Flash always seems to be 2-3 versions behind the
> Windoze version. And sites too often complain about that.

Hmm, haven't encountered that.

> So I was
> not going to bother with Flash at all on Linux, just run WINE
> instead. I've never seen a "free flash substitute" that actually
> worked, so I'm not bothering with those.

I've tried a couple of those. Never got them to work. Some wouldn't even 
give me an empty gray area where the Flash video was.

> Also, it's nice to have two separate browsers: one with flash, and
> one without. I can thus use firefox.exe as my Flash/MySpace/etc
> browser occasionally when I need it.

I suppose that's one good point. But Firefox with NoScript essentially 
gives me the same functionality.

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David
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