[SOLVED] No Pepper Flash sound on Chrome or Chromium

stormtracknole · 12-13-2014, 10:38 AM

Noticed that on the latest version of Chrome, I am not getting any flash sound at all. HTML5 sound works fine though. I tried installing Chromium and pepper flash separately from alien's website, but I'm having the same issue. Flash on Firefox works fine. Even using freshplayer (pepper flash for firefox) works. So, I'm a bit stumped. My asound.conf is set correctly as far as I can tell since all other applications work. I'm wondering if Chrome has gone the way of PulseAudio maybe?

moisespedro · 12-13-2014, 11:09 AM

I was having a different issue with PepperFlash: it was crashing all the time. I tried downgrading it and it worked. I am still using the latest Chrome (39.0.2171.95) with the PepperFlash extracted from the "google-chrome-stable_37.0.2062.94-1_i386.deb" file. In case you wanna try that:

http://mirror.pcbeta.com/google/chro...chrome-stable/

hedron · 12-13-2014, 12:55 PM

Have you tried alsamixer? Could be just muted.

stormtracknole · 12-13-2014, 12:56 PM

moisespedro, I'm almost certain that the previous version will work. It was working fine until I upgraded to the latest Chrome version.

hedron, yes, nothing is muted.

Other applications are working just fine.

I am beginning to think that Pulse will now be required. :/

Alien Bob · 12-13-2014, 02:10 PM

I tested the FLash Video at the bottom of this page: http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/h...ash/index.html

It plays sound. I see no issues, and I do not have pulseaudio installed. Not even apulse. Nor Jack audio. Just ALSA.

I am running:

Code:

chromium-39.0.2171.95-x86_64-1alien
chromium-pepperflash-plugin-16.0.0.235-x86_64-1alien

Eric

mlangdn · 12-13-2014, 03:40 PM

I tried the test. It downloaded it. When I clicked on it, it opened in MPlayer. That's the first time I ever tried a vid in Chromium.

Alien Bob · 12-13-2014, 04:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mlangdn

I tried the test. It downloaded it. When I clicked on it, it opened in MPlayer. That's the first time I ever tried a vid in Chromium.

Do you have the chromium-pepperflash package installed?

Eric

hitest · 12-13-2014, 05:54 PM

I installed Chrome from Google and installed it using the slackbuild script included in /extra.

Code:

google-chrome-39.0.2171.95-x86_64-1.txz

Sound and animation works for me.

stormtracknole · 12-13-2014, 06:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

I tested the FLash Video at the bottom of this page: http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/h...ash/index.html

It plays sound. I see no issues, and I do not have pulseaudio installed. Not even apulse. Nor Jack audio. Just ALSA.

I am running:

Code:

chromium-39.0.2171.95-x86_64-1alien
chromium-pepperflash-plugin-16.0.0.235-x86_64-1alien

Eric

Video plays, but no sound. I almost wonder if the audio is somehow being piped to the hdmi side. As a test, I may just go ahead and blacklist that since I never use it.

stormtracknole · 12-13-2014, 06:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stormtracknole

Video plays, but no sound. I almost wonder if the audio is somehow being piped to the hdmi side. As a test, I may just go ahead and blacklist that since I never use it.

Sure enough, blacklisting the hdmi module did the trick. Sound is now coming through just fine. The question is, why would Chrome not honor the values in /etc/asound.conf? All other application were.

mlangdn · 12-13-2014, 10:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

Do you have the chromium-pepperflash package installed?

Eric

Yes - both updated through slackpkg+. I generally only use chromium for a few sites that don't do well in FF. And I am running -currentx86_64 with multilib. That said, I do overwrite the config everytime since I never have customized anything.

Alien Bob · 12-14-2014, 08:33 AM

If you overwrite /etc/default/chromium with /etc/default/chromium.new after you installed the chromium-pepperflash-plugin package, you'll disable PepperFlash in Chromium.
The chromium-pepperflash package modifies the file /etc/default/chromium to let Chromium know it should load the Flash library.

Eric

stormtracknole · 12-14-2014, 06:53 PM

I'll mark this thread as solved since I figured out the issue. I have my suspicions that I would get better results with Pulse, but I'm glad to hear that I won't need it for the time being. Interestingly enough, Google voice (hangouts) work better on firefox than on Chrome. Go figure!

mlangdn · 12-14-2014, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

If you overwrite /etc/default/chromium with /etc/default/chromium.new after you installed the chromium-pepperflash-plugin package, you'll disable PepperFlash in Chromium.
The chromium-pepperflash package modifies the file /etc/default/chromium to let Chromium know it should load the Flash library.

Eric

Thanks Eric! Daggone - I didn't know that would happen. Reinstalled and it works fine.

stormtracknole · 12-19-2014, 02:46 PM

Well, the no sound issues unfortunately came back. I just went ahead and got PulseAudio installed and everything works fine now. This basically confirms my suspicion. Given the kind of set up my laptop has, I had to have PA installed. Even the issues that I was having with Google Voice (Hangouts) were fixed. Just posting this in case anyone else runs through the same issue. Thank you all as always for the great help.