there is no audio in flash (YouTube)

[Danny Howard]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

Flash audio doesn't work in FireFox 3.5. It doesn't work in Chromium, either. Audio works throughout the rest of the system. I just upgraded to 9.10 beta and this used to work.

I'd be happy to test this in Firefox 3.0, but if I try to launch it via menu or shell I get Firefox 3.5.3.

0-21:41 djh@noneedto ~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

0-21:42 djh@noneedto ~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0-21:42 djh@noneedto ~$ apt-cache policy chromium
chromium:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.9.14-1
  Version table:
     0.9.14-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages

3) I expect audio to play when I watch a video in YouTube.

4) Audio does not play when I play a video in YouTube.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 7 21:37:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:4288): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:4288): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:4397): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:4380): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Danny Howard (dannyman)]

If I quit Firefox 3.5 and start Firefox 3.0, I can watch videos in Flash with audio.

[Kamba (blamer)]

I confirm this bug.

All other audio apps work fine: amarok. kaffeine and all other. But flash is mute.
If i right-click on it - i can see that audio is enabled.

firefox 3.5
2.6.31-14-generic - dev.
using HDA-Nvidia (ALC660VD Analog), not PulseAudio

[Danny Howard (dannyman)]

Per another bug, I loaded "pavucontrol" and was unable to un-mute Firefox.

IMO, Firefox shouldn't default to mute.

-d

[Danny Howard (dannyman)]

I said:

"Per another bug, I loaded "pavucontrol" and was unable to un-mute Firefox."

What I meant:

"Per another bug, I loaded "pavucontrol" and was able to un-mute Firefox."

Sorry for the confusion.

-danny

[Sami Kallio (sami-kallio)]

This problem occurs with a fresh installation of 64 bit Kubuntu 9.10.
uname -a
Linux desktop 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:38:19 UTC 2010 x864 GNU/Linux

[drew212 (mstngdrew212)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 317330 , so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.