4 Aug
2006
4 Aug
'06
4:34 p.m.
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 11:18 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
Somehow XMMS and Firefox (or rather Firefox media
plugins) seem to
compete over sound resources.
If I start XMMS and then, say, go to YouTube to watch a video, there's
no sound from the browser. I have to kill XMMS, browse again, then it
works.
I am under the impression that it only happens with Flash movies, but
those are anyway the only ones that play directly in the browser - for
the other formats I use the MediaPlayerConnectivity plugin for Firefox
and configured it to launch Xine for WMV, Qt and Real movies.
What's the cause and how can I fix it?
It's because your card lacks hardware mixing support and Flash only
supports the OSS API (/dev/dsp) which bypasses ALSA's software mixing.
The only solution is to get Flash to support ALSA natively, or get a
hardware mixing soundcard.
You might be able to work around this limitation of Flash by setting
FIREFOX_DSP to "aoss" in /etc/firefox/firefoxrc.
Lee