sheffy
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
Posts: 211
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 Posted: 04/21/07 - 06:17 Post subject: |
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| Hello! I have some browsing and streaming problem. Yesterday was surfing the net and during the visit of my favorite site I couldn’t hear the sound, while I played some video on it. Said I miss some plugin. BTW the problem appeared while I was using Firefox, never had that problem with IE. Have no clue, is it something missing here in installation or what? |
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madelina
Joined: 01 Mar 2006
Posts: 64
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| Posted: 05/18/07 - 23:35 Post subject: |
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| Hi and welcome! Streaming problems are very common, and caused by different reasons. Missing the plug-in is usual one, the on that is missing most of the times is Flash player, missing or out of date. If that is the problem download or install new Flash player. But as I heard streaming problems are showing up also on the computers of people who already have the latest version of the Flash player. You haven’t specified what operating system you are using. That also could be a reason. As I heard if you are using Windows Vista - no solutions there. As one fast solution could be to download from Firefox add-ons plugin called FoxyTunes. Other reason that maybe caused the problem could be the sound card, and this thing happens only to PCs that have low end sound cards. So you should change your sound engine settings. Firefox is always using the Flash player which is taking the sound card all for itself. Making changes through Firefox or Flash player are not possible, meaning no option changing the sound engine to use.( flash player is using OSS to configure itself). ALSA(Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) package is the one that redirects or translates everything that goes through OSS towards ALSA and that’s what will provide sound performance when Flash player is in use. So download alsa-oss package. To change your "sound engine", go to System, Preferences, Sounds. The other way is to type gnome-sound-properties in a console. Change current default settings by changing all options to ALSA and close the window. Next step is to type in sudo apt-get install also-oss and modifying the FIREFOX_DSP line, the variable one, by making it equal with aoss one, FIREFOX_DSP = “aoss”. Save and Exit. You need to restart Firefox after this and try to test it on some site that has videos on it. Reboot Pc after changes maybe would be good call, in case this doesn’t work. But if even then doesn’t work force Firefox to use alsa-oss with typing “aoss firefox &” in a console, with changes that you made earlier in firefoxrc file you don’t need to call for “aoss firefox” unless that is only way that will make all to work ,then create shortcut on the desktop and point to “aoss firefox”. Maybe this issue could be fixed by downloading and installing Flash 9 Beta. Must say that what I heard this solution to this problem is found by LINUX users but I am guessing because I also found info that ALSA can be used on Windows this could solve problem to “any OS type user”. |
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