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

[Ken Restivo]

After all this, you'll love what the solution was.

Audio appeared to be workin in Flash on my 32-bit Lenny netbook with an HDA-Intel card. But there was one small problem-- no sound actually came out of the card.

In alsamixer, nothing I used previously ever actually made use of the PCM fader-- not JACK, not Ekiga, not mplayer, not anything that I used. So I had gotten into the habit of leaving it at zero most of the time. The LineOut fader is the one that actually did work, so that's what I used.

There was one exception though. Flash audio, for some reason, actually makes use of the PCM fader.

I brought up the PCM fader, and, lo and behold, no Wine required, the regular proprietary Adobe Flash for Linux, and regular Iceweasel for Lenny, and I now can watch Jon Stewart at last and hear what he's saying. Yay.

Thanks to everyone who responded. For future reference: "check your ALSA faders first" is good advice for anyone with audio trouble in Flash.

-ken
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 08:58:15PM -1000, david wrote:
> 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.
>