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  1. Bug #367173
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Comment 9 for bug 367173

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Martin Holmes (mholmes) wrote : Re: 9.04 flash player no sound after upgrade

I have seen this problem with 8.10 and 9.04, and I think the heart of it is that there's nowhere you can tell Flash what output device to send its audio to. In (for instance) Skype, I can choose the USB headphones/microphone as an output device, but Flash doesn't have any such configuration option, and I think it's quite simply defaulting to the wrong output device. There seem to be thousands of options in the system these days, with OSS, ALSA, Pulse and Jack, and I must admit I'm utterly confused about what they all are and how they interact. Even when I try to set the default output device in Preferences / Sound, I have at least three entries for the same set of USB headphones, and I have no idea which to choose.

So I don't know if this is a problem with Jaunty or with Flash, but I really think some helpful info and tutorials would go a long way here.