Flash videos play very fast and with no sound

[James Clemence]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

When using flash on Chromium or Firefox in Ubuntu Maverick, the videos play at around four times their usual speed or more, and with no sound. npviewer.bin and pulseaudio run up to around ~200% CPU usage, which is much higher than usual. Videos are totally unwatchable. Until yesterday or the day before when some updates were applied videos played at their normal speed, and there was no such spike in CPU usage.

For examples, see:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00v809k/Spooks_Series_9_Episode_3/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
http://www.youtube.com/

If you want more information, please let me know,

J

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: flashplugin-nonfree 10.1.85.3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 10 09:43:50 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100803.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree

[BabyGeek (babygeek)]

Install/Update your sound card driver or maybe your video card driver.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This happens on Natty 32bit in Firefox, Minefield, and Chromium, these are the only GUI browsers i have installed.
This started not too long ago.
For me at least this has nothing to do with hardware it is a bug in flash software.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Her eis output of apport-collect but i think it is more of no hooks as opposed to not being installed and here is version # of flash

gnomefreak@Develpment:~$ apport-collect 657586
The authorization page:
 (https://launchpad.net/+authorize-token?oauth_token=H87q1x9RprRTX8GPC2gb&allow_permission=DESKTOP_INTEGRATION)
should be opening in your browser. Use your browser to authorize
this program to access Launchpad on your behalf.

Waiting to hear from Launchpad about your decision...
Package flashplugin-nonfree not installed and no hook available, ignoring

gnomefreak@Develpment:~$ policy flashplugin-installer
flashplugin-installer:
  Installed: 10.2.153.1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 10.2.153.1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 10.2.153.1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/multiverse i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

i --purged flashplugin-installer and reinstalled it and it is still the same

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Here is my info

gnomefreak@Develpment:~$ uname -a && lsb_release -a
Linux Develpment 2.6.38-8-generic-pae #41-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 5 21:14:26 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty

[Chad A Davis (chadadavis)]

It would help to provide a link to a video that is not restricted, in order for others to try to reproduce this.
The video in the description is limited in terms of the numbers of views, and the other videos on that page are limited to the U.K.
Are you able to find other examples? Does this occur on every video, on every site?

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This bug is also seen using

gnomefreak@Develpment:~$ policy browser-plugin-gnash
browser-plugin-gnash:
  Installed: 0.8.9-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.8.9-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.9-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

choose any video it happens on all flash content but here is one so you don't have to look
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s6UiEuCYXA&feature=

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

here is a list that i tried all of them
http://www.youtube.com/videos?feature=mh

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

here are some more different sites. these are random links that i just clicked to test.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/penguincalls1

http://www.killsometime.com/videos/6954/Woman-Freaks-Out-On-Her-Boss

http://shorts.futurethought.tv/

http://video.foxnews.com/#/v/4658503/apple-facing-increasing-competition-from-android/?playlist_id=87485

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhkh8OAmQ90

I hope that is enough for testing and debugging

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

it says i no longer have flash installed. i didn't remove it. ill try installing it and see what happens. weird thing is it acts the same way :(

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

never mind i was looking at flashplugin-nonfree instead of -installer. I'm going to try to install -nonfree and see if it works

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

ok looks like a dummy package but trying anyway

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

same problem

[Reuben Morais (reuben-morais)]

Any update on this?

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

Try to report it to Adobe bugtracker directly: http://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

LP doesnt support JIRA bug tracker so i cant connect the link to this bug report

https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-6809

[gizbot (charles-merriam)]

This appears related both to the device selection setting for sound being changed by some applications and to the clocks of some sound cards:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11707930

The short answer is to go to your System Setting/Sound and check that the Hardware and Output tabs both use "Internal Hardware Analog Stereo". The bug is still here; no one knows why these get changed randomly and why they change the video playback speed.

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

Adobe Flash 11.2 is latest NPAPI Adobe Flash plugin for Linux: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/02/adobe-adandons-flash-on-linux/