flash video does not play

[ubunturox]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

flash videos play for 3 secs and stop. There is no sound also. If i move the slider, again 3 sec with no sound.

If I start firefox as root, works fine.

Checked permissions for .adobe and .macromedia

Starting firefox from command line helps sometimes, not always.

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

apt-cache policy firefox-3.0
firefox-3.0:
  Installed: 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 24 16:09:36 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox None
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-11-386 i686

[mrAshley (launchpad-mrashley)]

I have the same problem. No sound. Youtube and other flash media seem to work, but only play for a couple seconds then pause (but the pause button on the player still says play).

[ubunturox (ubunturox-kk)]

Once I had set ALSA as default output in gstreamer-properties, everything is ok. I also followed instructions on how to enable Pulse audio and set it but the default output has to be ALSA.

Maybe the bug can be closed.

Thanks,
Kalyan

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

closing this bug then, thanks for the feedback.

[Andrew DeLisa (ayan4m1)]

I have the same issue on hardy amd64, and ALSA is set as my output in gstreamer-properties. Testing ALSA in that window gives me audio out, but video in flash stops after 3 or 4 seconds and I have no audio output. If there is a more concrete workaround involving gstreamer-properties, would someone please post it here? Otherwise, this bug should be reopened.