2010/1/7 david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com>
Andras Simon wrote:
> On 1/6/10, J. Simon van der Walt <tedthetrumpet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Second, probably stupidly basic and annoying question; as soon as I
>> launch Jack, I lose all sound from the YouTube video I'm trying to
>> watch in Firefox. How does one get around that?
>
> You can probably download the video (there are various scripts around
> that'll do that for you, but usually the simplest way is to watch the
> video in firefox and then rename the resulting /tmp/FlashXXXXXXX
> file), and then play it in a jack-aware media player, such as mplayer.
> Unfortunately, on some distributions, the jack capability is not
> compiled in mplayer.

Seeing this thread today and having faced the same problem a few days earlier , I googled for an answer and came across a small personal .asoundrc which claims to solve it by creating a temporary ALSA to jack bridge. Now I don't know much about the internalsa of ALSA routings and I cretainly do not muck around with .asoundrc files, but this seemed OK , so I tried it, and it worked flawlessly in my setup
Opensuse 11.2 32bit, Terratec Phase22 24bit
jack 0.118.0 from obs://build.opensuse.org/home:edogawa   repository,
alsa 1.0.21
firefox 3.5.6,  flash-player 10.0.42.34

I'm not sure if this will help, YMMV, but maybe someone more in the know will step up.

Just copy it in your home dir as .asoundrc (DO backup the original, if any...)
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