Comment 13 for bug 254405

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Jeenu V (jeenuv) wrote : Re: [Bug 254405] Re: No media works when a flash video is being streamed in Firefox. Some times audio freezes afer streaming is finshed

I installed the plug-in and other media can now co-exist with streamed flash
media. However, post install, I notice that Firefox has become more unstable
than it was, occasionally crashing when stream flash videos.

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> wrote:

> Install libflashsupport or use 8.10's asoundconf set-pulseaudio after
> installing libasound2-plugins.
>
> ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: alsa-driver => pulseaudio
> Importance: Undecided => Low
> Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
>
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> No media works when a flash video is being streamed in Firefox. Some times
> audio freezes afer streaming is finshed
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/254405
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "pulseaudio" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When a flash video is being streamed in Firefox, I can't play any other
> media on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Mplayer video seems non-progressing and Amarok
> player just hangs, until the page containing the video is close in Firefox.
>
> At times there were instances where, Pidgin messenger tried to alert
> incoming message, and later the whole sound froze. I could restore the sound
> only after restarting the X (I don't know how to restart the sound driver
> alone). After this freezing happens (of course after the flash video page is
> closed in Firefox), mplayer plays back only video without any audio; and
> Amarok player displays a dialog saying it couldn't initialize any sound
> drivers.
>
> Other people are also facing the same issue. There's a thread in Ubuntu
> forums, to which none has replied yet:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5488506
>

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Thanks
Jeenu