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Old 05-24-2006, 05:06 PM   #1
Marcolux
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firefox swf no sound


Hello
i installed the macromedia FLash plugin in my firefox 32bits
when a launch a swf file, it seem to work fine the only problem is there is no sound
Could somebody help me?
Thanks
-i'm trying to watch a linux tutorial i found in the network, LinuxCBT Cd tutirial;
 
Old 05-25-2006, 02:56 PM   #2
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I just had the same problem twice this past week. The first time I solved it by correcting the ownership/permissions of the flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so files in my ~/.mozilla/plugins directory. If you install your plugins globally they're probably not in your home directory.

The second time, after upgrading to a newer firefox package, it seemed to change the mimetype for swf to look for flashplayer.xpt in a different location. I've installed a mimetype editor plugin so I can view and edit them from within the browser. I'm not sure how to change it otherwise.
 
Old 05-26-2006, 10:41 PM   #3
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I think I finally have a good answer to this. I, like many others, have had this problem for awhile. Every time I searched, I kept finding suggestions to change permissions on the plugins or to disable the sound system in KDE to let arts sound take over. The permissions thing never worked, and I didn't want to disable the KDE sound system.

I finally got this to work by lowering the "auto-suspend" option in the KDE sound settings from 60 seconds to 10 seconds. Now, as long as I wait at least 10 seconds from the last KDE event sound, my flash content sound plays fine. I'll probably lower this to 2 or 3 seconds, but I've been testing it and playing around with it at 10 seconds, and it's worked consistently with that time interval ever since.
 
Old 05-27-2006, 04:19 AM   #4
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What desktop environment are you using? It could be anything from a permissions problem, Arts or Esd getting in the road or an Alsa problem.

To throw yet another suggestion in the ring, last time I used it Flash output it's sound to OSS which was no good for Alsa which most people use. Try running Firefox like this, see if it works.
Code:
aoss firefox
 
Old 05-29-2006, 08:12 AM   #5
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I had the same problem and solved it using the mime editor plugin ( i found it on extensionmirror AT nl, the homepage didn't work)
I knew it had to be something in firefox itself because Konqueror playd the files correctly with sound.

I found no link to swf, so I made one myself like this:
Mimetype: application/swf
Description: Flashobject
extension: *.swf

and then select: open with default program

just to make sure I also changed my auto release settings to 10 secs

now Flash works again!

Hope this helps

Patrick

on PCLOS - KDE 3.5.2 - firefox 1.5.0.3
 
Old 05-29-2006, 04:55 PM   #6
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I generally had a few sound problems with Flash and some other applications. What I did was only to add the user to the audio group.
 
Old 03-03-2009, 02:02 PM   #7
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firefox swf no sound

apparently I'm running in the same situation

can anyone please help me.

platform is Linux Enterprise 4 Mozilla firefox v is 2.0.0-20 and flash player is 9 . I can't update to 10 because my mozilla 2.0.0-20 won't support 10. is there a way I can fix this problem? and how can I change the setting to run it at 10 sec ???

Thank you so much ... I'm just a beginner thanks...
 
  


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