Comment 6 for bug 254405

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Parthan <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thanks for the response, when attaching logs as requested by the triager
> please attach each file as an individual attachment to your bug report
> by using the "Add a comment/attachment" for every file as it helps to
> view the files easily.

Sorry, I didn't know this. I'll take care of this in future.

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> In addition have you installed flashplugin-nonfree from multiverse
> repository? This plugin is known to be an issue with pulseaudio.

Yes. This plug-in came by default with the Ubuntu installation.

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> Can you also check System > Preferences > Sound and ensure it is ALSA
> for your Music and Videos option? If it is not ALSA but PulseAudio, then
> the bug needs to be reassigned appropriately. Thanks in advance :)

I had modified those fields so that pulse audio is used for every item
present there; I can't recall what all were there before my change. Are you
suggesting that I use ALSA instead of PulseAudio? After I received this
mail, I switched everything to ALSA back.

Thanks
Jeenu

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> 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
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> of the bug.
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> Status in "alsa-driver" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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Thanks
Jeenu