Comment 4 for bug 254405

I see. So what do we do? Shall I log a new defect for Flash plug-in then?
AFAIK, flash plug-in is from Adobe, isn't it?

Thanks
Jeenu

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Efrain Valles <email address hidden> wrote:

> If you are having issues on a hardy box. the package causing the issue
> would be the flash plugin since it is the one that does not play nice
> with pulseaudio, which is the new sounds server on ubuntu and not ALSA
> as you stated.
>
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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
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>
> Status in "alsa-driver" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> 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