To be honest, I don't remember whether I installed the Flash plug-in separately. All I remember is that I didn't explicitly ask to install it -- probably it got included when I selected some other ones to install. Nevertheless, I think, that doesn't matter now.
I think I was using ALSA when I first discovered the problem, and then searched around for restarting the sound driver alone. This brought me to PulseAudio and I chose PulseAudio since then (for no obvious reasons though). Now, I changed everything to ALSA, as you suggested. I opened a YouTube site with a flash media streaming. Meanwhile, I tried to playback a video with mplayer. I found that the mplayer video was frozen, until I close the firefox page with the YouTube video! To repeat, I'm using ALSA this time (but neither logged out nor restarted the laptop after I changed the sound settings) . Let me know if I can provide you more details. Thanks Jeenu On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Parthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > For your kind information, flashplugin-nonfree come as a part of ubuntu- > restricted-extras which is not installed by default as this is a non- > free plugin. When you try to play a media which requires non-free > plugin, you are intimated of the same and you may wish to install it or > not as per your choice. If you agree to get this non-free plugin > installed, it installs the plugin for you. > > Yes, Pulseaudio is known to have problems when the flashplugin-nonfree > is also installed. Hence the general suggestion is to use ALSA or ESD > as the sound server. What we would like to confirm is, when you filed > this bug where you using Pulseaudio or ALSA? Can you also confirm that > the bug doesn't occur when ALSA is chosen? Thanks in advance. > > -- > 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 "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 > -- Thanks Jeenu -- 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 member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
