[Gutsy] No sound in Flash movies

[Speedoo]

I can't get sound to work in swf. I've installed (repeatedly) flashplugin-nonfree v9, but although the video portion works fine, there's no sound. Sound works correctly (as far as I've been able to determine) in all other apps. I'm using a Gateway MT6459 AMD Turion 64X2 running 64-bit Gutsy, with an ATI Radeon Express 1150 soundcard.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in flashplugin-nonfree.

[Sabaki (crbell)]

I'm having the same problem. No sound with Firefox 2.0.0.8 and flashplugin-nonfree v9 on 64-bit Ubuntu v.7.10 'Gutsy'. nspluginwrapper and alsa-oss are installed. Most other apps play sound fine. I've reinstalled, tried launching firefox with aoss, edited /etc/firefox/firefoxrc and put FIREFOX_DSP="aoss", installed pulseaudio, etc., etc. Nothing I've tried so far works.

I have an AMD 64 Athlon 64 3500+ processor and the motherboard is a ECS RS-482_M.
The on-board AC '97 sound just wouldn't work with Ubuntu at all, so I installed a Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] and disabled the on-board sound support in the bios and all my other apps work fine with it.

lsmod shows the following:

Module Size Used by
snd_rtctimer 5344 1
binfmt_misc 15500 1
radeon 130080 2
drm 107688 3 radeon
rfcomm 48808 2
l2cap 29440 11 rfcomm
bluetooth 66436 4 rfcomm,l2cap
nfsd 274856 13
exportfs 8192 1 nfsd
lockd 77360 2 nfsd
sunrpc 201480 8 nfsd,lockd
ppdev 11528 0
ipv6 325896 18
powernow_k8 16864 0
cpufreq_powersave 3200 0
cpufreq_stats 8704 0
cpufreq_userspace 6304 1
cpufreq_ondemand 11024 0
cpufreq_conservative 9864 0
freq_table 6592 3 powernow_k8,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
video 21268 0
container 6656 0
sbs 21904 0
button 10656 0
dock 13248 0
ac 7560 0
battery 12680 0
it87 25488 0
hwmon_vid 4992 1 it87
i2c_isa 6912 1 it87
sbp2 27784 0
lp 16264 0
snd_ens1370 25504 5
gameport 19856 1 snd_ens1370
snd_pcm_oss 50560 0
snd_mixer_oss 20352 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 95624 4 snd_ens1370,snd_pcm_oss
snd_ak4531_codec 12544 1 snd_ens1370
snd_seq_dummy 5508 0
snd_seq_oss 37632 0
snd_seq_midi 11136 0
snd_rawmidi 30336 2 snd_ens1370,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 10240 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
parport_pc 42792 1
snd_seq 63776 7 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
parport 45196 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
snd_timer 28040 3 snd_rtctimer,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 10516 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 70696 19 snd_ens1370,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_ak4531_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 11040 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 12688 2 snd_ens1370,snd_pcm
psmouse 46108 0
k8temp 7936 0
pcspkr 4992 0
i2c_piix4 11788 0
serio_raw 9348 0
i2c_core 31488 3 it87,i2c_isa,i2c_piix4
shpchp 38684 0
pci_hotplug 37876 1 shpc...

[Sabaki (crbell)]

I have since tried swiftweasel-2.0.0.8_athlon64-64bit_ubuntu-AMD64.deb and still no sound in Flash.

About:config in Swiftweasel shows:

Shockwave Flash

    File name: /var/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes

So, whatever this is, it looks like it is more likely the plugin itself or the way the sound is supposed to be routed, or maybe a bug in Alsa, but I'm just guessing.

Chuck

[Sabaki (crbell)]

Looking into this a little further, here is the output of nspluginwrapper -l on my Gutsy 64 box

crbell@shodan:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ nspluginwrapper -l
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
  Original plugin: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
  Wrapper version string: 0.9.91.5
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
  Original plugin: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
  Wrapper version string: 0.9.91.5
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
  Original plugin: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
  Wrapper version string: 0.9.91.5
/usr/lib64/firefox/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so
  Original plugin: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
  Wrapper version string: 0.9.91.5

Still no audio, although the video works fine on sites like youtube.com.

Hope this gets fixed soon. I see several other bug reports that look similar to this one.

[Sabaki (crbell)]

I finally got the flashplugin-nonfree to work, with audio, in Firefox64 on Ubuntu64 Gutsy. I had to resort to installing and configuring PulseAudio and a somewhat kludgy PulseAUdio 'libflashsupport' package, and also involving copying a missing dependency from, a feisty32 system with libasyncns0 installed from /usr/lib/ libasyncns.so.0.0.0 to my Ubuntu64 box /usr/lib32/libasyncns.so.0.0.0 and making a symlink to it to /usr/lib32/libasyncns.so.0.

See thread:

Gutsy64 Flash9 on Firefox64 with sound, Finally! With PulseAudio!!!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=617142

I don't know as I call it 'solved' but, for myself, it is at least somewhat 'triaged' and is working nicely now.
It works in Swiftweasel now , too.

[ironstorm (ironstorm-gmail)]

I have the exact same problem described here, no sound on flash movies in Firefox with Ubuntu Gusty AMD64...
Guess I'll have to try installing pulse audio...

[Dara Adib (daradib)]

Marking as duplicate of Bug 151849. Please correct me if I am wrong.