Audio only through Firefox/Flash

**chandler** · June 25th, 2008

(8.04) I have some mp3s and I have the xine codecs, and w32 codecs but cannot play music through Rhythmbox, Totem, XMMS, Mplayer, or Amarok. They all seem to get to 1 sec then halt. I tried running from terminal but no errors were thrown. I can listen to audio through Youtube without any problems.

Any ideas? I was thinking there may be a lock or something on the HW device but I don't know.

Thanks!

Code:

william@wul:/var/www$ rhythmbox /home/william/Shared/Coldplay\ -\ Viva\ La\ Vida.mp3 
william@wul:/var/www$

**molotov00** · June 25th, 2008

If you can hear sound through flash and others, then I'm inclined to suggest it is not a hardware error.

I'm leaning toward codec or some other problem. Do basic .wav files play?

**Odrodzona-Sarmacja** · June 26th, 2008

All xine codecs and all w32 codecs and then you go and install all totem codecs? They hate each other. On my computer they did anyway, so I removed everything called "totem" from my Xubuntu. I have no sound (I am using only ALSA on all my players) and picture issues any more. (hint: Also on Xubuntu 8.04 you can get xmms player like in older versions was... you just need to compile it yourself

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**chandler** · June 26th, 2008

Yeah I can get sound to work through flash without a hitch. But when I do, I have to kill all firefox processes before it'll work through anything else. I guess this is a software problem then. Woops...