HOWTO: PulseAudio+Flash+AMD64

[Nuke Skyjumper]

This post assumes that you already have Flash working under 64bit Firefox with nspluginwrapper on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy AMD64

So after a few hours of searching only to find a few "it works for me" posts without enough detail, and plenty of "it's not working" posts, I got finally got it working myself.

What you need is libflashsupport.so that knows to load the 32bit PulseAudio client libraries (had to modify it to do that), and the 32bit PulseAudio libraries themselves. Also needed was a 32bit libcap that PulseAudio depended on.

Modified packages are here:
lib32cap1_1.10-14build1_amd64.deb
lib32pulse0_0.9.6-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
libflashsupport_1.0~2219-1_amd64.deb

You should be able to just install these, restart firefox, and have Flash play sound via PulseAudio. Good Luck.

[timeoff]

Worked for me. Thanks....

[Cappy]

Where is the source code?

Did you build this from http://pulseaudio.revolutionlinux.com/PulseAudio ?

[Nuke Skyjumper]

Did you build this from http://pulseaudio.revolutionlinux.com/PulseAudio ?

Yeah, it's just the debian package from http://pulseaudio.vdbonline.net/libflashsupport/ modified to look in /usr/lib32, and compiled for 32bit.

[helliewm]

Brilliant thanks for posting this in the forum extremely useful. Works for me superbly. NOw to the the same to my 2 laptops.

Helen

[helliewm]

The web site with these debs on is now down. I wanted to put it on my laptop too.

Helen

[Ender27182818]

Worked for me, thanks a ton for making this!

[~LoKe]

Finally, PulseAudio works universally for me. Thanks!

Next step is to threaten PA to support passthrough.

[dudeskeeroo]

Freakin' sweet. This works like a charm...and like you, I had searched high and low without getting anything concrete (apart from failure tales) . After spending most of the day on it I thought I would have to get the source myself.

You have saved me a fair chunk-o-effort (but now I'll waste that time on Youtube!)

Cheers!

[izm81]

AWESOME. Thank you. You've made this process SO much easier.

Just a note for anyone if it doesn't work initially, uninstall those three packages, close ur browsers, and try installing them again. That's what happened with my setup; I'm guessing I had a partially installed (non-working) solution the first time when I tried this. uninstalling and re-installing worked.

Thanks again!