amarok2 and flash (pulseaudio)

[Alfonso Cartes]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

When I have amarok2 opened with flashplugin in firefox, the video on firefox starts playing and stops. I think it's a problem with the interaction with pulseaudio because I have two sound cards and when I change te stream of the flash player to the alsa (hda-sound) one and amarok stays with the soundblaster it works fine.

Sorry for my english.

If you want more details ask me.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Please include any asoundrc you have.

[Alfonso Cartes (alfonso220)]

where is it? I can only find /etc/modprobe/alsa-base, do you want it?

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Generally, /etc/asound.conf and/or ~/.asoundrc. Did you install flashplugin-nonfree or adobe-flashplugin? Which architecture is this install?

[Alfonso Cartes (alfonso220)]

I have flashplugin-nonfree, and it is install on i386

I can't find nether of the files. But I attached these other files.

the alsa-base file I copied into /etc/modprobe.d/ and the other one is called daemon.conf and I copied into ~/.pulse/

daemon.conf:

default-sample-channels = 6

I did this because I wanted the surround sound of an external sound blaster live 24 bit and the ability to use my headphones and not having the laptop speakers sounding too

[dbrossard (dbrossard)]

I have found a work around that works for me:

Description: When amarok is runing and Firefox 3 tries to play a video with sound, no sound plays, and after closing firefox, it is hung in the background and must be killed.

Assumptions: Both Firefox and Amarok were trying to directly access my sound hardware causing an error. In my case it is listed in KDE system settings as: HDA Intel (AD198x Analog)

Workaround: Go to KDE System settings, Multimedia, Device Preference tab and set PulseAudio as the preferred (top) Output Device for all types of audio.

Tested working: Play a song in Amarok and also a youtube video in Firefox 3. Both applications can now play audio simultaneously and firefox does not hang after viewing the video. It can be closed cleanly.

[Jeff (jeff.v)]

The workaround above works for me as well (KDE 4.3 PPA on Jaunty, 64-bit Flash 10.0 r32). As dbrossard noted, you should change each Audio Output type (Notifications, Music, Video, etc). Then restart your KDE session.

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