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Flash does not like pulseaudio

I get no sound from flash with pulse audio, it does not detect it, and I put the asoundrc in /etc and still no luck.

Youtube videos won't play at all and other sites play with no sound, pulse works with everything else though.

I need to use it to record internal audio and using the alsa loopback yeilds the same result.

Any suggestions? I use Slackware 14.1

asoundrc

Code:

    pcm.pulse {

        type pulse

    }



    ctl.pulse {

        type pulse

    }



    pcm.!default {

        type pulse

    }



    ctl.!default {

        type pulse

    }

Pulseaudio = Lennart Poettering. No-one like PulseAudio.

Hi Gumboherpy,

pulseaudio is not supported in flash.

the following configuration file could solve the problem.

/etc/asound.conf

Code:

# Use PulseAudio by default

pcm.!default {

  type pulse

  fallback "sysdefault"

  hint {

    show on

    description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"

  }

}



ctl.!default {

  type pulse

  fallback "sysdefault"

}



# vim:set ft=alsaconf:

Unfortunately Flash was geared more with ALSA's dmix and OSS's ossmix in mind rather that pulseaudio. You'll have to use them if you want Flash audio media.

The above input did not help things at all, videos in youtube play now but still no sound. I am willing to ditch pulseaudio but I need somehow to record internal computer audio. (for gameplay recordings and such) I tried setting up an alsa loopback and that yeilded no results, same thing. Anyway you guys know on how to record computer audio? Thanks.

something like this
http://www.swview.org/blog/how-redir...sa-output-file

as for the PA problem
i read somewhere that flash is hardcoded to the first card, maybe PA causes that problem (?idk)

JACK and ESounD work with ALSA directly via routing audio streams rather than against it trying to force it across an API layer. You might have better results with those. As Eric said in that blog, ESounD does take some work, but it works rather well. JACK is just dynamite however.

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/audio/jack2/

JACK2 is the more modernized version. And the JACK homepage has plenty or articles to set it up.

Okay so I tried following Alienbob's tutorial and everytime I try to run the alsa2jack loopback I get this error via terminal.

Code:

herpy ~ 

$ /usr/local/bin/loop2jack 

--- start

ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.66:/org/jackaudio/Controller: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

DBus exception: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.66 was not provided by any .service files

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

Could not open component .so '/usr/lib/jack/jack_netone.so': /usr/lib/jack/jack_netone.so: undefined symbol: opus_custom_mode_create

Could not open component .so '/usr/lib/jack/jack_netone.so': /usr/lib/jack/jack_netone.so: undefined symbol: opus_custom_mode_create

jack_get_descriptor : dll jack_netone.so is not a driver

Could not open component .so '/usr/lib/jack/jack_netone.so': /usr/lib/jack/jack_netone.so: undefined symbol: opus_custom_mode_create

Could not open component .so '/usr/lib/jack/jack_netone.so': /usr/lib/jack/jack_netone.so: undefined symbol: opus_custom_mode_create

jack_get_descriptor : dll jack_netone.so is not a driver

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

jack server is not running or cannot be started

JACK server not running?

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

jack server is not running or cannot be started

JACK server not running?

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

jack server is not running or cannot be started

JACK server not running?

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

jack server is not running or cannot be started

JACK server not running?

herpy ~ 

$ Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory

Cannot connect to server request channel

jack server is not running or cannot be started

jack server not running?

jack server is not running or cannot be started

jack server not running?

$

aplay -l spits this out

Code:

$ aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: VT1708S Analog [VT1708S Analog]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 3: VT1708S Digital [VT1708S Digital]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 3: Loopback [Loopback], device 0: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM]

  Subdevices: 8/8

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1

  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2

  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3

  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4

  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5

  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6

  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7

card 3: Loopback [Loopback], device 1: Loopback PCM [Loopback PCM]

  Subdevices: 8/8

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1

  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2

  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3

  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4

  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5

  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6

  Subdevice #7: subdevice

This is what my asoundrc looks like

Code:

# ------------------------------------------------------

# hardware 0,0 : used for ALSA playback

pcm.loophw00 {

  type hw

  card Loopback

  device 0

  subdevice 0

  format S32_LE

  rate 44100

}



# ------------------------------------------------------

# hardware 0,1 : used for ALSA capture

pcm.loophw01 {

  type hw

  card Loopback

  device 0

  subdevice 1

  format S32_LE

  rate 44100

}



# ------------------------------------------------------

# playback PCM device: using loopback subdevice 0,0

pcm.amix {

  type dmix

  ipc_key 196101

  slave {

    pcm "loophw00"

    buffer_size 8192

    period_size 4096

    periods 2

  }

}



# capture PCM device: using loopback subdevice 0,1

pcm.asnoop {

  type dsnoop

  ipc_key 196102

  slave {

  pcm loophw01

  period_size 4096

  periods 2

  }

}



# ------------------------------------------------------

# software volume

pcm.asoftvol {

  type softvol

  slave.pcm "amix"

  control { name PCM }

  min_dB -51.0

  max_dB  0.0

}



# ======================================================



# ------------------------------------------------------

# duplex device combining our PCM devices defined above

pcm.aduplex {

  type asym

  playback.pcm "asoftvol"

  capture.pcm "loophw01"

  hint {

    description "ALSA->JACK Loop Bridge"

  }

}



# ======================================================



# ------------------------------------------------------

# Mixer control definitions to keep JACK and some other apps happy

ctl.amix {

    type hw

    card Loopback

}



ctl.asnoop {

    type hw

    card Loopback

}



ctl.aduplex {

    type hw

    card Loopback

}



# ======================================================



# ------------------------------------------------------

# for jack alsa_out: looped-back signal at other end

pcm.ploop {

  type hw

  card Loopback

  device 1

  subdevice 1

  format S32_LE

  rate 44100

}



# ------------------------------------------------------

# for jack alsa_in: looped-back signal at other end

pcm.cloop {

  type hw

  card Loopback

  device 1

  subdevice 0

  format S32_LE

  rate 44100

}



# ======================================================



# ------------------------------------------------------

# default device



pcm.!default {

  type plug

  slave.pcm "aduplex"

}

And this is what my jackdrc looks like

Code:

/usr/bin/jackd -r -m -dalsa -r44100 -p1024 -n2 -m -H -D -Chw:0 -Phw:0

What am I missing?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gumboherpy (Post 5155587)

In Debian with MATE 1.6 and MATE 1.8 I have no problems at all with Flash and PulseAudio working together. Do you have other systems you can use to confirm the problem or do you just use Slackware?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark Pettit (Post 5155593)

Pulseaudio = Lennart Poettering. No-one like PulseAudio.

It would be nice if people can get away from the "personality" thing. I actually do like PulseAudio, it "just-works" on my laptop when ALSA doesn't. Instead of bashing something because of the person behind it it would be great if you could actually offer help.

It works on debian so it is a slackware issue. My soundcard is hw:0'0. Thats what I'm trying to record sound from.

What browser are you using? Flash and Linux are slowly separating. Flash is up to version 13 while it is stuck at 11.2 in Linux so some flash sites won't work properly or at all in Firefox/Iceweasel and you will be forced to use Chrome (or Chromium with pepperflash extracted from Chrome) to actually use flash sites.

The other thing you can do is force YouTube to use HTML5 rather than flash or use a Firefox extension that converts Flash to a range of other video types that you can use.

Quote:

Originally Posted by k3lt01 (Post 5156326)

you can do is force YouTube to use HTML5 rather than flash.

Dumb question.. How ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxtinker (Post 5156331)

Dumb question.. How ?

Not Dumb, I had to look for it a while back. Go to this page and select HTML5 at the bottom. If you are signed in it will remember the setting, I'm not sure if it will remember it if you're not signed in.

@k3lt01
Thanks I rather use the HTML 5 for my set up...