No audio in flash video

[Matt Layman]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

While attempting to watch the Laughing Baby Youtube clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HttF5HVYtlQ), I could see video but heard no audio. I check to see if I could play other audio (outside of Firefox) and I had no problems in those situations.

This report is similar in title to Bug 311914 and Bug 356687, but since I'm filing through apport, I didn't want to piggyback on them since I'll be attaching different information that may not be relevant to those reports.

I just completed an upgrade to Jaunty yesterday from an up-to-date Intrepid installation.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[André Gondim (andregondim)]

I can confirm this problem at youtube.com

But at others flash animation has...

I am using Jaunty Release Candidate.

[jkohler2 (jkohler2)]

My version of Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 2 has the following information from

uname -a

john@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-1-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 2 16:03:01 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

I think the flash program is the default video added when I accessed the first you tube video
after making my update:

sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

John

[Ryan (ubuntu-draziw)]

I think this is more likely pulse-audio vs firefox.

[Ryan (ubuntu-draziw)]

re pulse vs firefox - please try this...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578
You can /probably/ go directly to step6. (mixer level is probably zero for PCM audio).

Cheers

[Matt Layman (mblayman)]

Thanks for the suggestion. However, I did manage to overcome this problem by using Firefox 3.5. So I guess it was a Firefox problem that will be resolved in Karmic (which will include Firefox 3.5).

[Ryan (ubuntu-draziw)]

That's odd since Firefox doesn't manage the sound. Maybe the flash plugin was broken? fyi - Current Karmic 9.10 alpha 3 + current patches is still on firefox 3.0.12, but I'm using Firefox 3.5 via PPA. :)

[jkohler2 (jkohler2)]

Hi Ryan,

Thank you !!!

John
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Ryan <email address hidden> wrote:!!

> re pulse vs firefox - please try this...
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578
> You can /probably/ go directly to step6. (mixer level is probably zero for
> PCM audio).
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> No audio in flash video
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/360741
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[James Henderson (james-m-henderson)]

Karmic 9.10 latest version. Firefox/3.5.3. PCM is not muted. I'm pretty sure it worked until I updated from 9.04 to 9.10.

[jkohler2 (jkohler2)]

James,
Thanks for your message. I am using 9.04 now, and will upgrade, again, to
9.10 and hope to get Firefox 3.5.3

John

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:58 PM, James Henderson <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Karmic 9.10 latest version. Firefox/3.5.3. PCM is not muted. I'm
> pretty sure it worked until I updated from 9.04 to 9.10.
>
> --
> No audio in flash video
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/360741
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[André Gondim (andregondim)]

This is a old bug, and there is no problem.