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[eKlipSe]

Hi all, well i downloaded 'Easy Ubuntu', and i can see flash video on the web now. i can also play videos on Google and You Tube - however i dont get any sound with them ? On MySpace i can't get the videos to play there.

Can anyone help me out and tell me what else i need. i didnt install all the 'Easy Ubuntu' packets ... i just checked the ones i thought i would need for video playback on the internet. ThanX riK ... : ) i'm really new at this.

[PingunZ]

You could try automatix ;)

[louis_nichols]

Hi all, well i downloaded 'Easy Ubuntu', and i can see flash video on the web now. i can also play videos on Google and You Tube - however i dont get any sound with them ? On MySpace i can't get the videos to play there.

Can anyone help me out and tell me what else i need. i didnt install all the 'Easy Ubuntu' packets ... i just checked the ones i thought i would need for video playback on the internet. ThanX riK ... : ) i'm really new at this.

Try opening firefox with the command

aoss firefox

Update all launchers to contain this instead of just firefox

[louis_nichols]

You could try automatix ;)

Automatix or Easy ubuntu don't have anything to do with that. It's a matter of sound engine. Flash uses oss, which is kind of primitive, but luckily can be emulated under alsa. :KS

[eKlipSe]

once i enter the command 'aoss firefox' how do i update all launchers ... i'm really new to thiS ... :)

[louis_nichols]

well... the command itself can be entered directly in terminal. usually, when ppl here tell you about a certain command, you go to the application "terminal", write the text there, and press enter.

As for the launchers, that's a different thing. First off, you hve to make sure it's worth doing. For this, you launch firefox with the command I wrote in terminal and try it, to see wether it has sound, the way you want. If it does, then... You go to Applications>Accessories>Alacarte Menu editor. There you navigate to Internet>Firefox, you right-click on it, select properties and in the field "command" you add aoss at the beginnin gof it and leave the rest unchanged.

[MetalMusicAddict]

I removed the bold and color because frankly, It looks childish.
Hi all, well i downloaded 'Easy Ubuntu', and i can see flash video on the web now. i can also play videos on Google and You Tube - however i dont get any sound with them ? On MySpace i can't get the videos to play there.
MySpace has upgraded their flash to Flash 8 or 9beta. (cant remember) Theres currently no Flash8 in linux. I think 9 is supposed to be.
Can anyone help me out and tell me what else i need. i didnt install all the 'Easy Ubuntu' packets ... i just checked the ones i thought i would need for video playback on the internet. ThanX riK ... : ) i'm really new at this.All the sites you mentioned use Flash for their video.

[eKlipSe]

o.k., i opened up firefox thru terminal and still no sound to 'You Tube' or 'Google' videos. now im in the Alacarte Menu Editor and i've accessed internet properties, do i enter the aoss directly in front of the 'firefox%u' command or due i add it with a space - aoss firefox%u, or does it matter ? :)

[louis_nichols]

o.k., i opened up firefox thru terminal and still no sound to 'You Tube' or 'Google' videos. now im in the Alacarte Menu Editor and i've accessed internet properties, do i enter the aoss directly in front of the 'firefox%u' command or due i add it with a space - aoss firefox%u, or does it matter ? :)

there should be a space, but if you don't get sound starting firefox with aoss in front, then there's no point in updating the launchers...

sorry, but in my case it works: I get sound in flash only if I open firefox with aoss emulation, and I don't know other ways

Try searching the forums. This is a common problem and there are several ways to solve it, which are posted on the forums.

[eKlipSe]

hey there, well i did the 'aoss' steps mentioned above, as well as the following :

sudo apt-get install alsa-oss
sudo nano /etc/firefox/firefoxrc

change: FIREFOX_DSP="none"
to: FIREFOX_DSP="aoss"

What i also read in the forumns and did was go to system--->preferences--->sounds and uncheck/disable (ESD) - enable software sound mixing, thus loosing system sounds. However i GOT SOUND playback on 'You Tube' and 'Google Videos'.

Does anyone know why/what the conflict is and how it's resolved ??? Also is there a plugin that'll enable video playback on MySpace?

Dont know if i really needed to do all the 'aoss' steps forementioned and/or if i need to undo them? anyways any advice/help would be appreciated. thanx riK ... 8]

[louis_nichols]

MySpace... not very soon. They just changed the version of flash they use, so we have to wait for the new player. Adobe announced it would be released in early 2007. So... that's that with that.

As for the sound steps... Just do several triews, with different versions. Myself, I never configured firefoxrc. I just start firefox with aoss emulation.

Why this happens? Pretty long story. Linux has several sound engines: alsa, oss, esd, arts,. jack etc. Now, flash uses oss for sound output, but oss is a pretty old system and doesn't support mixing, which means only one app outputs sound at a time. To have sound from another source in oss, you have to stop the first app. Theoreticaly, you should have sound in flash without any tweaks if you don't have any other sound apps on at the moment you use it, but that's not certain, as the card might be needed for system sounds and the like. Plus, if oss does have sound, it takes over the whole sound card, so no other app will have sound afterwards. Alsa is the best at the moment, supporting many cool features, one of which is this oss emulation, which just tricks apps that want to output sound through oss into thinking they are doing this. And, as alsa supports both software and hardware mixing, this means that, by starting firefox with aoss, we can also have sound for flash.