18 Sep
2009
18 Sep
'09
1:45 a.m.
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:
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.
Ken Restivo wrote:
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. 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 ... 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.